Welcome to Allenville ...
Although we found mention of Allenville during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Allenville was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..
While we are confident that Allenville was located in Marengo County, we don't know its actual location within the county.
We've added Allenville to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Allenville - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Allenville, please Contact Us.
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Allenville might be (or was) located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
We believe that Allenville would be found within the (334) area code.
Communities Also Named Allenville ...
While we believe that this Allenville is located in Marengo County, we know of another 2 Alabama communities named Allenville. Those communities are located in the following counties: Hale and Mobile County.
Beyond Alabama, there are 9 communities that are also named Allenville - they are located in Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Allenville.
Adding Allenville to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Allenville in the FIPS-55 file. For more information, see the Referenced FIPS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.
In addition, our notes show that the earliest dated mention that we've found for Allenville was on a map titled Map of Alabama (from Rand McNally, 1911).
For more details about the above, see References and Mentions for Allenville on our Genealogy Page.
Other Roadside Stops ...
Mentions & References for Allenville
Cities, Towns and Villages of Alabama
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Allenville and then turned west". While Allenville could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Allenville as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. 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 Allenville 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. |