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Do you know of Shirley ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1870 and closed  in 1893.

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 Shirley ...

We found 36 communities that share the name Shirley.

There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Shirley.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another 35 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 35 communities, 34 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Tuscaloosa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Shirley [Tuscaloosa County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Van Buren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Shirley [Van Buren County].
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Shirley.
    • California
      • Kings County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Shirley [Kings County].
      • Orange County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Shirley [Orange County].
    • Colorado
      • Chaffee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Shirley [Chaffee County].
      • El Paso County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Shirley [El Paso County].
      • Saguache 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 Colorado community of Shirley [Saguache County].
    • Illinois
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Shirley [Jefferson County].
      • McLean County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Shirley [McLean County].
    • Indiana
      • Hancock County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Shirley [Hancock County].
    • Iowa
      • Pocahontas 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 Iowa community of Shirley [Pocahontas County].
    • Kansas
      • Cloud County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Shirley [Cloud County].
    • Kentucky
      • Letcher 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 Kentucky community of Shirley [Letcher County].
    • Louisiana
      • Avoyelles Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Shirley [Avoyelles Parish].
    • Maine
      • Piscataquis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Shirley [Piscataquis County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Middlesex County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Shirley [Middlesex County].
      • Suffolk 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 Massachusetts community of Shirley [Suffolk County].
    • Michigan
      • Baraga 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 Michigan community of Shirley [Baraga County].
    • Minnesota
      • Polk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Shirley [Polk County].
    • Missouri
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Shirley [Washington County].
    • Montana
      • Custer County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Shirley [Custer County].
    • New Hampshire
      • Hillsborough 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 New Hampshire community of Shirley [Hillsborough County].
    • New Jersey
      • Salem County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Shirley [Salem County].
    • New York
      • Erie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Shirley [Erie County].
      • Suffolk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Shirley [Suffolk County].
    • Ontario
      • 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 Ontario community of Shirley.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Huntingdon 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 Pennsylvania community of Shirley [Huntingdon County].
      • Westmoreland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Shirley [Westmoreland County].
    • South Carolina
      • Hampton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Shirley [Hampton County].
    • Tennessee
      • Fentress County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Shirley [Fentress County].
    • Texas
      • Hopkins County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Shirley [Hopkins County].
    • Virginia
      • Charles City County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Shirley [Charles City County].
    • West Virginia
      • Tyler County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Shirley [Tyler County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Brown County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Shirley [Brown County].
    • Wyoming
      • Carbon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Shirley [Carbon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shirley ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Covington 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 Covington County.

Cawthon 
Conecuh RiverLake View
Czar 
 Pleasant Home
DannellyPoley
  
FeaginRat
 Rienzi
Hallton 
HamptonvilleSandford
HaygoodSouth
HiltonStokeley
  
IolaTabitha

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Shirley 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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