Adams County, Iowa, in 1903, showing the location of Iveyville.
A post office was opened in Iveyville in 1885, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1903.[2] The community was named for B.F. Ivey, who lived in nearby Corning before relocating to Iveyville.[3]
Iveyville, located in Jasper Township,[2] was described as a "prosperous village",[4] with a woodmen's hall and the Farmers Creamery in the late 1800s.[5][6] Iveyville's only church was the Methodist Episcopal church; a general store was operated by O. T. Muzzy. The community also had a town hall on the second floor of the store, as well as a blacksmith shop and a grist mill. The Tanner Bros operated a hardware store in Iveyville.[3]
Iveyville's population was 46 in 1902,[7] but the closure of the post office in the community "finished" the village, according to a news story in the Adams County Free Press.[4] In 1922, the last business in Iveyville, the blacksmith shop, relocated to nearby Nodaway.[4] By 1925, Iveyville's population was 30.[8]
By the 1930s, Iveyville was no longer marked on regional maps, and did not appear on the 1930 Adams County plat map.
