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Do you know of Cocoa ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1892 and closed  in 1908.

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 Cocoa ...

We found one communities that share the name Cocoa.

Within Alabama, the name Cocoa is unique.

Beyond Alabama, there is another community also named Cocoa in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Brevard County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Cocoa [Brevard County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cocoa ...

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

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  Choctaw 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 Choctaw County.

BarbourJackson
Bergamot 
BevillLenora
Bevill's StoreLowell
Branch 
 Redemption
Choctaw 
 Samuel
DesotovilleService
  
EnochTullis
 Tuscahoma
Fail 
 Williams Cross Roads
Ipco 
 Yantley Creek

Footnotes ...

<1>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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