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Do you know of Blue Lick ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Blue Lick. 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 Blue Lick.<1>

We found mention of Blue Lick as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Franklin County, Alabama.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1843 and closed  in 1884.

Communities Also Named Blue Lick ...

We found four communities that share the name Blue Lick.

Within Alabama, the name Blue Lick is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Indiana
      • Clark County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Blue Lick [Clark County].
    • Kentucky
      • Lincoln County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Blue Lick [Lincoln County].
    • Missouri
      • Saline County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Blue Lick [Saline County].
    • Ohio
      • Allen County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Blue Lick [Allen County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blue Lick ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Franklin 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 Franklin County.

AlanthusIgoburgh
  
BaggettJeddo
Beuchhinnah 
BurlesonKirby
Bussellville 
 Mount Star
CarrollMount
Cedar Snag 
CharlottesvilleNelsonville
Chub HillNewtown
Churubusco 
Court HouseOak Hill
  
DaileyPleasant Hill
DimePosey
  
EatontonSano
EzzellShingle
 Spruce Pine Station
Hargett Mills 
HovoterTravis
  
IgoburgYocum

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>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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