Do you know of Elizabeth ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Elizabeth. 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 Elizabeth.
Our sources for Elizabeth (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 Elizabeth other than they indicate that Elizabeth would be found somewhere in Coffee County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1872 and closed in 1904.
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 Elizabeth ...
We found 31 communities that share the name Elizabeth.
There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Elizabeth.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 29 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Elizabeth.
- Arkansas
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Elizabeth [Fulton County].
- Colorado
- Elbert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Elizabeth [Elbert County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Elizabeth [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Cobb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Elizabeth [Cobb County].
- Illinois
- Jo Daviess County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Elizabeth [Jo Daviess County].
- Indiana
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Elizabeth [Harrison County].
- Kansas
- Johnson 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 Elizabeth [Johnson County].
- Marshall County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Elizabeth [Marshall County].
- Wallace County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Elizabeth [Wallace County].
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Allen Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Elizabeth [Allen Parish].
- Minnesota
- Otter Tail County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Elizabeth [Otter Tail County].
- Mississippi
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Elizabeth [Washington County].
- Missouri
- Callaway County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Elizabeth [Callaway County].
- Nebraska
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Elizabeth [Lincoln County].
- New Jersey
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Elizabeth [Union County].
- North Carolina
- Mecklenburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Elizabeth [Mecklenburg County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Elizabeth.
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Elizabeth [Allegheny County].
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Denton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Elizabeth [Denton County].
- Hidalgo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Elizabeth [Hidalgo County].
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Elizabeth [Jefferson County].
- West Virginia
- Wirt County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Elizabeth [Wirt County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Elizabeth ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Elizabeth:
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 Elizabeth - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
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.
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Elizabeth 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/ |