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Do you know of Cross Trails ???

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

Our sources for Cross Trails (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 Cross Trails other than they indicate that Cross Trails would be found somewhere in Coffee County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1878 and closed  in 1912.

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 Cross Trails ...

We found two communities that share the name Cross Trails.

Within Alabama, the name Cross Trails is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Sevier County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cross Trails [Sevier County].
    • Idaho
      • Idaho County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Cross Trails [Idaho County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cross Trails ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

More Orphans in  Coffee 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 Coffee County.

Brookland 
BrunsonLadie
 Leverett
Coffee Corner 
 Mount Pleasant
Danley 
DismukesOglethorpe
DotOld Town
  
ElizabethParker
EtaPenn
 Perdue
FrescoPink
FrioPlanet
  
GeorgeRodney
  
HaymonUnion Academy
Huggins 
 Victoria
Indigo Head 
 Wolf Branch
Kyser 

Footnotes ...

<1>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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