Do you know of Pottersville ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1876 and closed  in 1904.

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 Pottersville ...

We found nine communities that share the name Pottersville.

Within Alabama, the name Pottersville is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Indiana
    • Owen County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Pottersville [Owen County].
  • Massachusetts
    • Bristol County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Pottersville [Bristol County].
  • Missouri
    • Callaway County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Pottersville [Callaway County].
    • Howell County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Pottersville [Howell County].
  • New Jersey
    • Hunterdon County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Pottersville [Hunterdon County].
  • New York
    • Warren County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Pottersville [Warren County].
  • Ohio
    • Columbiana County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Pottersville [Columbiana County].
  • Rhode Island
    • Newport County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Pottersville [Newport County].
  • Vermont
    • Lamoille County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Pottersville [Lamoille County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pottersville ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Pike 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 Pike County.