Do you know of Clare ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1905 and closed  in 1912.

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 Clare ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Clare.

Within Alabama, the name Clare is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Illinois
    • DeKalb County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Clare [DeKalb County].
  • Indiana
    • Hamilton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Clare [Hamilton County].
  • Iowa
    • Webster County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Clare [Webster County].
  • Kansas
    • Johnson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Clare [Johnson County].
  • Kentucky
    • Allen County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Clare [Allen County].
  • Louisiana
    • Sabine Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Clare [Sabine Parish].
  • Michigan
    • Clare County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Clare [Clare County].
  • New York
    • Saint Lawrence County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Clare [Saint Lawrence County].
  • Ohio
    • Clinton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Clare [Clinton County].
    • Hamilton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Clare [Hamilton County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Clare.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Clare ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

More Orphans in  Baldwin 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 Baldwin County.