Editing Correctionville, Iowa (section)

==History==
Correctionville was [[plat]]ted in 1855.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://siouxcityjournal.com/special-section/local/visitors-guide/correctionville-in-woodbury-county-platted-in/article_4af56426-dafe-57b8-b337-65ac05321c8d.html | title=Correctionville in Woodbury County platted in 1855 | newspaper=[[Sioux City Journal]] | date=23 October 2003 | access-date=1 March 2015}}</ref> It was so named from its location on a surveyors' [[Public Land Survey System|correction line]], an east-west line between baselines required because of the Earth's curvature.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA58|year=1908|page=58}}</ref> A post office called Correctionville has been in operation since 1862.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IA&county=Woodbury | title=County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=28 February 2015}}</ref>