Do you know of Melville ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Melville, so we are uncertain whether Melville is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Melville would be found somewhere in Winston County, Alabama.

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 Melville ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Melville.

Within Alabama, the name Melville is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Melville [Madison County].
- Kansas
  - Ottawa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Melville [Ottawa County].
- Louisiana
  - Saint Landry Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Melville [Saint Landry Parish].
- Missouri
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Melville [Jackson County].
- Montana
  - Sweet Grass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Melville [Sweet Grass County].
- New York
  - Suffolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Melville [Suffolk County].
- North Carolina
  - Alamance County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Melville [Alamance County].
- North Dakota
  - Foster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Melville [Foster County].
- Nova Scotia
  - 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 Nova Scotia community of Melville.
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Melville.
- Oregon
  - Clatsop County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Melville [Clatsop County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Melville.
- Rhode Island
  - Newport County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Melville [Newport County].
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Melville.
- Tennessee
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Melville [Hamilton County].
- Vermont
  - Franklin 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 Vermont community of Melville [Franklin County].
- West Virginia
  - Logan 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 West Virginia community of Melville [Logan County].

More Orphans in Winston 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 Winston County.

Amos	Magic
Ark	Mellville
	Motes
Bear Creek
Biler	Nathan
Brown's Creek
	Owl
Davis
Deer	Peaks Mill
Dismal
	Tavern
Elk
	Wood

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 Melville 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.