Editing Fertile, Iowa (section)

==History==
The community was first called Rhodes Mill after William Rhodes, who settled there in 1856 and built a house.
A land speculator created a fictional town nearby and named it Fontanelle, though the locals called it Putsey.  Fertile was established in 1877, and named for the quality of the soil in the valley it was located in.  Fertile was incorporated in 1908.<ref>{{cite book | last = Savage | first = Tom | title = A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names | publisher = University of Iowa Press | year = 2007 | isbn = 9781587297595 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DxagLIZHNv4C&dq=inauthor%3A%22Tom%20Savage%22&pg=PP1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SaEyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA348 | title=History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, Volume 1 | publisher=S.J. Clarke Publishing Company | author=Clyde, Jefferson F. | year=1918 | pages=348}}</ref>

Rhodes Mill is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Iowa#Worth County|National Register of Historic Places]].