Do you know of Leland ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1891.

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 Leland ...

We found 23 communities that share the name Leland.

Within Alabama, the name Leland is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 22 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Chicot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Leland [Chicot County].
- California
  - Shasta County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Leland [Shasta County].
- Florida
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Leland [Madison County].
- Georgia
  - Cobb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Leland [Cobb County].
- Idaho
  - Nez Perce County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Leland [Nez Perce County].
- Illinois
  - La Salle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Leland [La Salle County].
- Iowa
  - Winnebago County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Leland [Winnebago County].
- Kansas
  - Graham 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 Leland [Graham County].
  - Kingman 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 Leland [Kingman County].
  - Morris 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 Leland [Morris County].
- Louisiana
  - Catahoula Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Leland [Catahoula Parish].
- Michigan
  - Chippewa 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 Michigan community of Leland [Chippewa County].
  - Leelanau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Leland [Leelanau County].
  - Washtenaw 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 Michigan community of Leland [Washtenaw County].
- Mississippi
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Leland [Washington County].
- Nebraska
  - Gage County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Leland [Gage County].
- North Carolina
  - Brunswick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Leland [Brunswick County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Leland.
- Oregon
  - Josephine County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Leland [Josephine County].
- South Carolina
  - Chesterfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Leland [Chesterfield County].
- Utah
  - Utah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Leland [Utah County].
- Washington
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Leland [Jefferson County].
- Wisconsin
  - Sauk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Leland [Sauk County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Leland ...

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

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

More Orphans in Walker 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 Walker County.

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 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 Leland 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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