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Do you know of River Hill ???

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

Our sources for River Hill (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 River Hill other than they indicate that River Hill would be found somewhere in Jackson County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 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 River Hill ...

We found four communities that share the name River Hill.

Within Alabama, the name River Hill is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Pennsylvania
      • Allegheny County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of River Hill [Allegheny County].
    • Tennessee
      • Unicoi County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of River Hill [Unicoi County].
      • White County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of River Hill [White County].
    • Texas
      • Panola County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of River Hill [Panola County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for River Hill ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Jackson 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 Jackson County.

AltoHitch
AveryHornet
 Houser
Bass Station 
BeechboroKosh
Berry Store 
BloivarMeadsville
BloomingtonMooney
Boxcove 
Brisco StoreNat
 Nila
Callahan 
CardenOlalee
Carpenter 
Central CrossroadsPark's Store
Chapin 
Coffey's StoreRedman
CollumRock House
 Rocky Spring
Daugherty 
Doran's CoveSanta
 Smilax
Elora 
 Tip
Goose Pond Crossroads 
Gray's ChapelWallston
 Winninger

Footnotes ...

<1>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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