ELM SPRINGS - A station on the Milwaukee railway for several years on sections 14 and 15, Settlers Township.
Rock Valley News, Nov. 13, 1914 -pg 26
- Notice of Tax Sale: Office of Treasurer of Sioux County, Orange City, Iowa. November 7, 1914
Notice is hereby given that on Monday, the 7th day of December, A.D. 1914, the Treasurer of Sioux County, Iowa, will offer at public sale…..the following land and city lots for taxes, interests and costs then due and unpaid for the year, 1913 and for all other years for which taxes may be unpaid as set forth in the following: Said sale to commence at 10 o’clock a.m. Monday, December 7th, 1914, and to continue from day to day and adjourn from time to time until all lands and lots have been sold for taxes or otherwise unsettled.
SETTLERS TOWNSHIP, Elm Springs
M. Rice, Lot 17 & (Pt 16 & 18) Twp 7, Penalty=3.53, Cost=.23, Total=3.11
History Location
- Rock Valley Bee, Rock Valley, Iowa
Thursday, Nov. 30, 1972
Reader Tells of Elm Springs -- One of our readers has informed us that the paper had a bit of misinformation in one of our “How It Was” stories.
It seems we assumed the now disappeared Elm Springs was in South Dakota.
Art Helder, who says he was born just a couple of miles from Elm Springs, says the town was in Iowa.
“It was just across the river from Fairview, SD,” said Mr. Helder.
“It used to have about fifty residents with 2 stores, a lumber yard, school house, elevator, depot and stock yards. There used to be a big mound behind the school that they thought was an Indian burial. And I remember a blind horse they had on a treadmill there.”
Now a single house south of the blacktop which curves into Fairview is all that is left of the town of Elm Springs (Iowa.)
Book: The Story of Sioux County, author Charles L. Dyke, 1942
- ELM SPRINGS (chapter) - Pages 283-292
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