Do you know of Pinckneyville ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1840 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 Pinckneyville ...

We found five communities that share the name Pinckneyville.

Within Alabama, the name Pinckneyville is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Georgia
    • Gwinnett County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Pinckneyville [Gwinnett County].
  • Illinois
    • Perry County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Pinckneyville [Perry County].
  • Kentucky
    • Livingston County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Pinckneyville [Livingston County].
  • Mississippi
    • Wilkinson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Pinckneyville [Wilkinson County].
  • South Carolina
    • Union County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Pinckneyville [Union County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pinckneyville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Pinckneyville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Clay 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 Clay County.