Do you know of Brownville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Brownville. 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 Brownville.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Brownville, so we are uncertain whether Brownville 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 Brownville would be found somewhere in Clay 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 Brownville ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Brownville.

There are three communities within Alabama that are also named Brownville.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Conecuh County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Brownville [Conecuh County].
- Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Brownville [Jefferson County].
- Tuscaloosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Brownville [Tuscaloosa County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - DeSoto County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Brownville [DeSoto County].
- Iowa
  - Mitchell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Brownville [Mitchell County].
- Kansas
  - Shawnee 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 Kansas community of Brownville [Shawnee County].
  - Thomas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Brownville [Thomas County].
- Louisiana
  - Caldwell Parish
  - 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 Louisiana community of Brownville [Caldwell Parish].
  - Pointe Coupee Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Brownville [Pointe Coupee Parish].
- Maine
  - Piscataquis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Brownville [Piscataquis County].
- Missouri
  - Nodaway County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Brownville [Nodaway County].
- Nebraska
  - Nemaha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Brownville [Nemaha County].
- New Jersey
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Brownville [Middlesex County].
- New York
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Brownville [Jefferson County].
  - Ulster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Brownville [Ulster County].
- Wisconsin
  - Chippewa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Brownville [Chippewa County].

More Orphans in Clay 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 Clay County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Brownville 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.