Do you know of Ball Flat ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ball Flat. 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 Ball Flat.
Our sources for Ball Flat (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Ball Flat other than they indicate that Ball Flat would be found somewhere in Etowah County, Alabama.
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 Ball Flat ...
We found one communities that share the name Ball Flat.
There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Ball Flat.
Beyond Alabama.
- Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ball Flat [Cherokee County].
- Cherokee County
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ball Flat ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ball Flat:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Ball Flat - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Etowah County ...
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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 Etowah County.