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Do you know of Black Rock ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Black Rock. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Black Rock.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Black Rock, so we are uncertain whether Black Rock is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Black Rock would be found somewhere in Crenshaw County, Alabama.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Black Rock ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Black Rock.

Within Alabama, the name Black Rock is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, eleven are located in the United States and six are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Lawrence County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Black Rock [Lawrence County].
    • Connecticut
      • Fairfield County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Black Rock [Fairfield County].
    • Indiana
      • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Black Rock [Warren County].
    • Kentucky
      • Grayson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Black Rock [Grayson County].
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Black Rock [Baltimore County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Norfolk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Black Rock [Norfolk County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Black Rock.
    • New Mexico
      • McKinley County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Black Rock [McKinley County].
    • New York
      • Cayuga County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Black Rock [Cayuga County].
      • Erie County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Black Rock [Erie County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Black Rock.
    • Oregon
      • Polk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Black Rock [Polk County].
    • Utah
      • Millard County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Black Rock [Millard County].

More Orphans in  Crenshaw County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Crenshaw County.

Aiken 
 Jacksontown
BestJohnson
 Julian
Cohort 
ColemanMount Ida
Cook's Stand 
 New Providence
EffortNorwood
  
GoldenPatsaliga
  
HelicanSal Soda
HostSurles
Hudson 

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Black Rock could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.









 

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