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Do you know of Sturdevant ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1873 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 Sturdevant ...

We found one communities that share the name Sturdevant.

Within Alabama, the name Sturdevant is unique.

Beyond Alabama, there is another community also named Sturdevant in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Woodruff County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Sturdevant [Woodruff County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sturdevant ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Tallapoosa 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 Tallapoosa County.

Buck CreekPineburr
Bugler's Mill 
 Robinsons Ferry
ChattasofkeeRome
ConcreteRussell Mill
County Line 
 Souchahatchee
Fish Pond 
ForsheetonThaddeus
  
Horse Shoe BendWind Creek
  
Melton's MillYates
MotleyYoungsville
  

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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