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Welcome to Cedar Grove ...

So far, we found very little information about Cedar Grove. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Cedar Grove to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Cedar Grove, please Contact Us.

Cedar Grove would have been located within present day Jefferson County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Cedar Grove, you might consider that their post office opened in 1828.

A typical abbreviation for Cedar Grove: Cedar Grv.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Cedar Grove is 610 feet [186 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Cedar Grove was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Cedar Grove was located: 205 & 659<4>

Communities Also Named Cedar Grove ...

While we believe that this Cedar Grove is located in Jefferson County, we know of another 4 Alabama communities named Cedar Grove. Those communities are located in the following counties: Baldwin, Covington, Jackson and Limestone County.

Beyond Alabama, there are 94 communities that are also named Cedar Grove - they are located in Arkansas (2), British Columbia, California (2), Colorado, Florida (2), Georgia (6), Illinois, Indiana, Kansas (2), Kentucky (6), Louisiana (6), Maine (2), Maryland (4), Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi (2), New Jersey (5), New Mexico (2), North Carolina (4), Ohio (2), Ontario (2), Pennsylvania (2), Rhode Island, South Carolina (3), Tennessee (14), Texas (4), Virginia (7), Washington, West Virginia (2) and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Cedar Grove.

Communities near Cedar Grove ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Cedar Grove.

  • Birmingham
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Hoover
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Hoover is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoover
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 85,959 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hoover <5>
  • Vestavia Hills
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Homewood
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Pelham
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Trussville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Mountain Brook
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Center Point
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Pell City
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Gardendale
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Cedar Grove. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Cedar Grove.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Cedar Grove. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cedar Grove.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Cedar Grove. See our Newspapers Page for Cedar Grove.

Adding Cedar Grove to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Cedar Grove in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Cedar Grove was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Cedar Grove post office opened in 1828. The Cedar Grove post office closed in 1884.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Cedar Grove.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Cedar Grove, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Alabama's counties, including Jefferson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Cedar Grove - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 205 code has been Overlayed with the 659 area code. New phone numbers in the Cedar Grove area will be assigned with one of these codes: 205 or 659. As a result, placing a call in the Cedar Grove area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/