Dick is absolutely right! The town of Olean is listed on the Cities & Towns/Past & Present as being in Keokuk County, Township unknown. The web site is: http://www.charter-pierce.org then click on the link for Cities & Towns/Past & Present. There is a listing both alphabetically and by County and Township. An excellent source of finding Cities and Towns of Iowa that have died out or is presently in existence. Webb Pierce

You may also find Iowa Communities and Counties (Past & Present) on the IAGenWeb state website, which also shows Olean in Keokuk county: http://iagenweb.org/state/places/o.htm Of course, once you narrow-down the county, the best place to find county information is to visit an IAGenWeb county site. The Keokuk site explains that Olean was a post office in Jackson Township. Post office names so often identified regions and were often synonymous with the idea of a town and sometimes became towns. Here is a Jackson Township history that references Olean on the Keokuk IAGenWeb site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iakeokuk/histories/jacksontwp.htm Steve Iowa State Census Project Coordinator for IAGenWeb. http://iagenweb.org/census/ Iowa Co., Iowa Coordinator for IAGenWeb. http://iagenweb.org/iowa/ (next to Keokuk Co.!)