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Do you know of Arnold ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1916.

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 Arnold ...

We found 39 communities that share the name Arnold.

Within Alabama, the name Arnold is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 39 communities, 37 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • British Columbia
      • 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 British Columbia community of Arnold.
    • California
      • Calaveras County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Arnold [Calaveras County].
      • Mendocino County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Arnold [Mendocino County].
      • Stanislaus County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Arnold [Stanislaus County].
    • Georgia
      • Cherokee 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 Georgia community of Arnold [Cherokee County].
      • Dougherty 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 Georgia community of Arnold [Dougherty County].
      • Fulton 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 Georgia community of Arnold [Fulton County].
      • Hancock 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 Georgia community of Arnold [Hancock County].
      • Milton 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 Georgia community of Arnold [Milton County].
      • Ware 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 Georgia community of Arnold [Ware County].
    • Illinois
      • Carroll County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Arnold [Carroll County].
      • Morgan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Arnold [Morgan County].
    • Iowa
      • Humboldt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Arnold [Humboldt County].
    • Kansas
      • Brown 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 Kansas community of Arnold [Brown County].
      • Labette 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 Kansas community of Arnold [Labette County].
      • Ness County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Arnold [Ness County].
    • Kentucky
      • Ohio County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Arnold [Ohio County].
      • Union County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Arnold [Union County].
    • Maine
      • Penobscot 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 Maine community of Arnold [Penobscot County].
    • Maryland
      • Anne Arundel County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Arnold [Anne Arundel County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Suffolk 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 Massachusetts community of Arnold [Suffolk County].
    • Michigan
      • Bay 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 Michigan community of Arnold [Bay County].
      • Marquette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Arnold [Marquette County].
      • Menominee 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 Michigan community of Arnold [Menominee County].
    • Minnesota
      • Saint Louis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Arnold [Saint Louis County].
    • Missouri
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Arnold [Jefferson County].
    • Montana
      • Gallatin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Arnold [Gallatin County].
    • Nebraska
      • Custer County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Arnold [Custer County].
    • Nevada
      • Elko County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Arnold [Elko County].
    • North Carolina
      • Davidson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Arnold [Davidson County].
    • North Dakota
      • Burleigh County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Arnold [Burleigh County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Arnold.
    • Ohio
      • Union County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Arnold [Union County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Armstrong 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 Pennsylvania community of Arnold [Armstrong County].
      • Westmoreland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Arnold [Westmoreland County].
    • Texas
      • Collin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Arnold [Collin County].
    • West Virginia
      • Brooke County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Arnold [Brooke County].
      • Lewis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Arnold [Lewis County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Chippewa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Arnold [Chippewa County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Arnold ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Arnold - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Wilcox 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 Wilcox County.

Albert Station 
 Paris
Blacks BluffParnassus
Burl 
 Rowell
Canton BendRuthven
Capell 
CulpepperSallie
 Sedan
Gaston 
GeesbendTeresita
  
O'LeaUpper Peach Tree
Osage 

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Arnold 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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