Welcome to Alpha ...

So far, we found very little information about Alpha. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Alpha to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Alpha - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Alpha, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Alpha , we believe that it would have been located within present day Choctaw County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Alpha, you might consider that their post office opened in 1892.

Time Zone: The area where Alpha was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Alpha ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 34 communities that are also named Alpha - they are located in Arkansas, California, Georgia, Idaho (2), Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (2), Kentucky, Louisiana, Manitoba, Maryland, Michigan (2), Minnesota, Missouri (2), Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington (2), West Virginia (2) and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Alpha.

Adding Alpha to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Alpha was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Alpha post office opened in 1892.

We also found Alpha on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Alpha.

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Alpha, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Alabama's counties, including Choctaw, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/