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Do you know of Barber ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1891 and closed  in 1904.

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 Barber ...

We found eighteen communities that share the name Barber.

There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Barber.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Houston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Barber [Houston County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Logan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Barber [Logan County].
      • Scott 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 Arkansas community of Barber [Scott County].
      • White County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Barber [White County].
    • California
      • Butte County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Barber [Butte County].
    • Idaho
      • Ada County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Barber [Ada County].
    • Kansas
      • Barber 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 Barber [Barber County].
      • Crawford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Barber [Crawford County].
    • Maryland
      • Talbot County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Barber [Talbot County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Worcester 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 Barber [Worcester County].
    • Montana
      • Golden Valley County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Barber [Golden Valley County].
    • New Jersey
      • Middlesex County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Barber [Middlesex County].
    • North Carolina
      • Chowan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Barber [Chowan County].
      • Rowan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Barber [Rowan County].
    • Ohio
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Barber [Washington County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Cherokee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Barber [Cherokee County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Union 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 Barber [Union County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Iowa 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 Wisconsin community of Barber [Iowa County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Barber ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Chambers 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 Chambers County.

AycockMount Hickory
  
Boyd's TankPiedmont Heights
  
DawsRedland Heights
DriversRoxana
  
Happy LandSandy Creek
Hickory Flat 
 Ward
JarrettWelsh
 Wickliffe
MeadowsWise

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 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 Barber 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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