Do you know of Hickory Flat ???

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

Our sources for Hickory Flat (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 Hickory Flat other than they indicate that Hickory Flat would be found somewhere in Chambers County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1854 and closed in 1905.

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 Hickory Flat ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Hickory Flat.

Within Alabama, the name Hickory Flat is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Johnson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hickory Flat [Johnson County].
  - White County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hickory Flat [White County].
- Georgia
  - Banks 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 Georgia community of Hickory Flat [Banks County].
  - Cherokee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Hickory Flat [Cherokee County].
- Kentucky
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hickory Flat [Jackson County].
  - Simpson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hickory Flat [Simpson County].
- Mississippi
  - Benton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hickory Flat [Benton County].
  - Chickasaw County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hickory Flat [Chickasaw County].
- South Carolina
  - Anderson 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 South Carolina community of Hickory Flat [Anderson County].
- Tennessee
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Hickory Flat [Carroll County].
- Virginia
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hickory Flat [Carroll County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hickory Flat ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Hickory Flat.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 01/34312 (Place Name: Hickory Flat)

County: Chambers (FIPS State/County: 01/017)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Hickory Flat) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Chambers 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 Chambers County.

Aycock	Mount Hickory

Barber	Piedmont Heights
Boyd's Tank
	Redland Heights
Daws	Roxana
Drivers
	Sandy Creek
Happy Land
	Ward
Jarrett	Welsh
	Wickliffe
Meadows	Wise

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 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 Hickory Flat 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/