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Do you know of Belcher ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1883 and closed  in 1913.

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 Belcher ...

We found ten communities that share the name Belcher.

Within Alabama, the name Belcher is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • White County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Belcher [White County].
    • Kentucky
      • Pike County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Belcher [Pike County].
    • Louisiana
      • Caddo Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Belcher [Caddo Parish].
    • Manitoba
      • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Belcher.
    • Missouri
      • Butler County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Belcher [Butler County].
    • Nevada
      • Nye County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Belcher [Nye County].
    • New Mexico
      • Roosevelt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Belcher [Roosevelt County].
    • New York
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Belcher [Washington County].
    • Texas
      • Montague 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 Texas community of Belcher [Montague County].
    • West Virginia
      • McDowell 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 West Virginia community of Belcher [McDowell County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Belcher ...

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

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 Belcher - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in  Barbour 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 Barbour County.

AftonMcRae
  
BoydPea River
Bush 
 Reeder's Mill
Cochran 
ColeridgeSpio
CowikeeSpivey
Cox's MillSpring Hill Station
  
GrubbsTwinsprings
  
HarrisWhite Oak Springs
 White Pond
Lodi 
 Zeigler

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 Belcher 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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