Do you know of Cottage Hill ???

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

Our sources for Cottage Hill (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 Cottage Hill other than they indicate that Cottage Hill would be found somewhere in Saint Clair County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1905.

Communities Also Named Cottage Hill ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Cottage Hill.

There are two communities within Alabama that are also named Cottage Hill.

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

Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cottage Hill [Jefferson County].
- Mobile County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cottage Hill [Mobile County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Benton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cottage Hill [Benton County].
- Florida
  - Escambia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Cottage Hill [Escambia County].
- Illinois
  - Putnam County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Cottage Hill [Putnam County].
- Indiana
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Cottage Hill [Clay County].
- Iowa
  - Dubuque County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Cottage Hill [Dubuque County].
- Kansas
  - Marshall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Cottage Hill [Marshall County].
- Massachusetts
  - Suffolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Cottage Hill [Suffolk County].
- Ohio
  - Muskingum County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Cottage Hill [Muskingum County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Clarion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cottage Hill [Clarion County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cottage Hill ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Cottage Hill - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Saint Clair 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 Saint Clair County.

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>	If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Cottage Hill could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/