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Do you know of Handley ???

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

Our sources for Handley (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 Handley other than they indicate that Handley would be found somewhere in Randolph County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1878 and closed  in 1892.

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 Handley ...

We found four communities that share the name Handley.

Within Alabama, the name Handley is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Missouri
      • Dallas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Handley [Dallas County].
      • Vernon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Handley [Vernon County].
    • Texas
      • Tarrant County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Handley [Tarrant County].
    • West Virginia
      • Kanawha County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Handley [Kanawha County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Handley ...

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

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 Handley - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Randolph 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 Randolph County.

BerniceOcre
  
ClackPittman
  
EastvilleRock Stand
  
GaySwag
GoldburgSwanhill
GridleySwann
  
JepthaTenant
 Tolbut
Levelroad 
 White
MaremontWichie
 Winston

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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