Welcome to Alston ...So far, we found very little information about Alston. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Alston to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Alston - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Alston, please Contact Us. While we don't have the exact location of Alston , we believe that it would have been located within present day Barbour County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Alston, you might consider that their post office opened in 1892. Time Zone: The area where Alston was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time The Area Code where Alston was located: 334 Communities Also Named Alston ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 10 communities that are also named Alston - they are located in Arkansas, Georgia (2), Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina and West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Alston. Adding Alston to Our Gazetteer ...The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Alston was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3> We also found Alston on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Alston. Footnotes ...
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