Gazetteer/AlmanacFanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 55.Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States....BUCHANAN COUNTY, in the easterly part of Iowa. Area, ------ square miles. Seat of justice, Independence. Pop. in 1850, 517.TabsLinksBuchanan County, IA