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Do you know of Victoria ???

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

We found mention of Victoria as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Coffee County, Alabama.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1868 and closed  in 1927.

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 Victoria ...

We found 42 communities that share the name Victoria.

Within Alabama, the name Victoria is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another 42 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 42 communities, 34 are located in the United States and nine are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Victoria.
    • Arkansas
      • Mississippi County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Victoria [Mississippi County].
      • Union County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Victoria [Union County].
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Victoria.
    • California
      • San Bernardino County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Victoria [San Bernardino County].
    • Florida
      • Lake 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 Florida community of Victoria [Lake County].
    • Georgia
      • Cherokee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Victoria [Cherokee County].
    • Illinois
      • Cass 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 Illinois community of Victoria [Cass County].
      • Knox County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Victoria [Knox County].
    • Indiana
      • Greene County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Victoria [Greene County].
    • Kansas
      • Ellis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Victoria [Ellis County].
    • Kentucky
      • Hancock 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 Victoria [Hancock County].
      • Hopkins County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Victoria [Hopkins County].
      • Johnson County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Victoria [Johnson County].
    • Louisiana
      • Natchitoches Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Victoria [Natchitoches Parish].
    • Manitoba
      • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Victoria.
    • Maryland
      • Dorchester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Victoria [Dorchester County].
    • Michigan
      • Ontonagon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Victoria [Ontonagon County].
    • Minnesota
      • Carver County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Victoria [Carver County].
    • Mississippi
      • Marshall County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Victoria [Marshall County].
    • Missouri
      • Daviess County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Victoria [Daviess County].
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Victoria [Jefferson County].
    • Nebraska
      • Cass 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 Nebraska community of Victoria [Cass County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Victoria.
    • New Jersey
      • Gloucester 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 Jersey community of Victoria [Gloucester County].
    • New Mexico
      • Dona Ana County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Victoria [Dona Ana County].
      • Luna County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Victoria [Luna County].
    • New York
      • Chautauqua County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Victoria [Chautauqua County].
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Victoria.
    • Nova Scotia
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Victoria.
    • Ohio
      • Mercer 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 Ohio community of Victoria [Mercer County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Victoria.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Victoria [Fayette County].
    • Prince Edward Island
      • Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Victoria.
    • South Dakota
      • Lawrence County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Victoria [Lawrence County].
    • Tennessee
      • Marion County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Victoria [Marion County].
    • Texas
      • Limestone County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Victoria [Limestone County].
      • Starr County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Victoria [Starr County].
      • Victoria County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Victoria [Victoria County].
    • Virginia
      • Lunenburg County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Victoria [Lunenburg County].
      • Rockbridge 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 Virginia community of Victoria [Rockbridge County].
    • West Virginia
      • Preston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Victoria [Preston County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Victoria ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

More Orphans in  Coffee 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 Coffee County.

Brookland 
BrunsonKyser
  
Coffee CornerLadie
Cross TrailsLeverett
  
DanleyMount Pleasant
Dismukes 
DotOglethorpe
 Old Town
Elizabeth 
EtaParker
 Penn
FrescoPerdue
FrioPink
 Planet
George 
 Rodney
Haymon 
HugginsUnion Academy
  
Indigo HeadWolf Branch

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Victoria 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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