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Do you know of Maitland ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1889 and closed  in 1903.

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 Maitland ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Maitland.

Within Alabama, the name Maitland is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, eleven are located in the United States and four are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Huerfano County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Maitland [Huerfano County].
    • Florida
      • Orange County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Maitland [Orange County].
    • Louisiana
      • Catahoula Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Maitland [Catahoula Parish].
    • Missouri
      • Holt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Maitland [Holt County].
    • North Carolina
      • Sampson 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 North Carolina community of Maitland [Sampson County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Maitland.
    • Ohio
      • Clark 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 Ohio community of Maitland [Clark County].
      • Williams 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 Ohio community of Maitland [Williams County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Maitland.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Mifflin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Maitland [Mifflin County].
    • South Dakota
      • Fall River 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 Dakota community of Maitland [Fall River County].
      • Lawrence County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Maitland [Lawrence County].
    • West Virginia
      • McDowell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Maitland [McDowell County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Maitland ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Clay County ...

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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 Clay County.

AbnerInk
Ayshire 
 Leslie
Black's StoreLogpit
BrownvilleLoombeam
Buckeye 
 Mad Indian
Copper MinesMeadow
 Moseley
DeanMountain Meadow
  
EliasOdelle
Enitachopco 
 Pinckneyville
FishheadPine Grove
Flat Rock 
 Rocky Mount
Gertrude 
GraphiteShinebone
Greshamton 
 Tomato
Harlan 
HatWatts Mill
HolmesWheelerville
 Wyatt
Idaho 

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 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 Maitland 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/









 

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