Do you know of Miles ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Miles. 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 Miles.
Our sources for Miles (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 Miles other than they indicate that Miles would be found somewhere in Talladega County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 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 Miles ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Miles.
There are two communities within Alabama that are also named Miles.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Escambia County
- Jefferson County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- San Luis Obispo County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Miles [San Luis Obispo County].
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Miles [Jackson County].
- Louisiana
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Miles [Washington County].
- North Carolina
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Miles [Orange County].
- Ohio
- Cuyahoga County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Miles [Cuyahoga County].
- Texas
- Runnels County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Miles [Runnels County].
- Virginia
- Mathews 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 Virginia community of Miles [Mathews County].
- Montgomery 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 Virginia community of Miles [Montgomery County].
- Washington
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Miles [Lincoln County].
- West Virginia
- Pendleton County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Miles [Pendleton County].
- Wisconsin
- Marinette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Miles [Marinette County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Miles ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Miles:
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 Miles - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Talladega 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 Talladega County.
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Miles 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/ |