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Do you know of Paris ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 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 Paris ...

We found 37 communities that share the name Paris.

Within Alabama, the name Paris is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another 37 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 37 communities, 35 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Greene County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Paris [Greene County].
      • Logan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Paris [Logan County].
    • California
      • Los Angeles County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Paris [Los Angeles County].
    • Georgia
      • Coweta 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 Paris [Coweta County].
    • Idaho
      • Bear Lake County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Paris [Bear Lake County].
    • Illinois
      • Edgar County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Paris [Edgar County].
    • Indiana
      • Jennings County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Paris [Jennings County].
    • Iowa
      • Davis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Paris [Davis County].
      • Linn County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Paris [Linn County].
    • Kansas
      • Lincoln 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 Paris [Lincoln County].
      • Linn 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 Paris [Linn County].
      • Shawnee 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 Paris [Shawnee County].
    • Kentucky
      • Bourbon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Paris [Bourbon County].
    • Maine
      • Oxford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Paris [Oxford County].
    • Maryland
      • Calvert County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Paris [Calvert County].
    • Michigan
      • Mecosta County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Paris [Mecosta County].
    • Mississippi
      • Lafayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Paris [Lafayette County].
    • Missouri
      • Monroe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Paris [Monroe County].
    • Montana
      • McCone County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Paris [McCone County].
    • New Hampshire
      • Coos County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Paris [Coos County].
    • New York
      • Oneida County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Paris [Oneida County].
    • North Carolina
      • Anson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Paris [Anson County].
    • Ohio
      • Guernsey County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Paris [Guernsey County].
      • Portage County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Paris [Portage County].
      • Stark County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Paris [Stark County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Kingfisher 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 Oklahoma community of Paris [Kingfisher County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Paris.
    • Oregon
      • Lane County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Paris [Lane County].
      • Malheur County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Paris [Malheur County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Paris [Washington County].
    • South Carolina
      • Greenville County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Paris [Greenville County].
      • Spartanburg 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 Paris [Spartanburg County].
    • Tennessee
      • Henry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Paris [Henry County].
    • Texas
      • Lamar County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Paris [Lamar County].
    • Virginia
      • Fauquier County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Paris [Fauquier County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Kenosha County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Paris [Kenosha County].
    • Yukon
      • Please visit our profile page for the Yukon community of Paris.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Paris ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Wilcox 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 Wilcox County.

Albert StationOsage
Arnold 
 Parnassus
Blacks Bluff 
BurlRowell
 Ruthven
Canton Bend 
CapellSallie
CulpepperSedan
  
GastonTeresita
Geesbend 
 Upper Peach Tree
O'Lea 

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 Paris 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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