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Do you know of Cobb ???

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

Our sources for Cobb (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Cobb other than they indicate that Cobb would be found somewhere in Shelby County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1878 and closed  in 1898.

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 Cobb ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Cobb.

Within Alabama, the name Cobb is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Lake County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cobb [Lake County].
    • Georgia
      • Sumter County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cobb [Sumter County].
    • Idaho
      • Washington 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 Idaho community of Cobb [Washington County].
    • Indiana
      • Vigo County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Cobb [Vigo County].
    • Kentucky
      • Caldwell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cobb [Caldwell County].
    • Louisiana
      • Ouachita Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Cobb [Ouachita Parish].
    • Missouri
      • Saint Clair County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cobb [Saint Clair County].
      • Stoddard County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cobb [Stoddard County].
    • Montana
      • Ravalli County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Cobb [Ravalli County].
    • Nebraska
      • Lancaster 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 Nebraska community of Cobb [Lancaster County].
    • New York
      • Suffolk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Cobb [Suffolk County].
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Cobb.
    • Oklahoma
      • Bryan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Cobb [Bryan County].
    • Oregon
      • Umatilla County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Cobb [Umatilla County].
    • Texas
      • Kaufman County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cobb [Kaufman County].
    • West Virginia
      • Greenbrier County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Cobb [Greenbrier County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Iowa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Cobb [Iowa County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cobb ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cobb:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Cobb - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Shelby 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 Shelby County.

AveryLandmark
 Lewis
Booth TownLynch
Box 
 Newala
Cloddy 
CoalvillePhillips Crossroads
CovePiney Woods Junction
Cresswell Station 
Creswell StationQuito
  
Dare's KilnRedlawn
  
Earhart's MillScotrock
 Simmons
FarmerSpradley
  
HighlandTafton
Hot Spur 
 Wannamaker
KendrickWeldon
KimulgaWest Calera
  
Lacey'sYellowleaf

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 Cobb 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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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