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Welcome to Clear Springs ...So far, we found very little information about Clear Springs. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Clear Springs to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Clear Springs, please Contact Us. Clear Springs would have been located within present day Etowah County<2>. The location of Clear Springs has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Clear Springs, you might consider that their post office opened in 1879. A typical abbreviation for Clear Springs: Clear Spgs. (or less commonly used: Clear Spngs. or Clear Sprngs.) While the community is gone, the present day location for Clear Springs is 800 feet [244 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Clear Springs was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Clear Springs (for example, toward Etna (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Communities Also Named Clear Springs ...While we believe that this Clear Springs is located in Etowah County, we know of another 2 Alabama communities named Clear Springs. Those communities are located in the following counties: Blount and Talladega County. Beyond Alabama, there are 17 communities that are also named Clear Springs - they are located in Florida (3), Kentucky, Manitoba, Mississippi, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee (4) and Texas (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Clear Springs. Communities near Clear Springs ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Clear Springs.
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 Clear Springs. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Clear Springs. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Clear Springs. 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 Clear Springs. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Clear Springs. See our Newspapers Page for Clear Springs. Adding Clear Springs to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Clear Springs 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 for Clear Springs was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Clear Springs in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Clear Springs. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Etowah County: www.etowahcounty.org/ The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/ Footnotes ...
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