Do you know of Deer ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1898 and closed  in 1907.

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 Deer ...

We found five communities that share the name Deer.

Within Alabama, the name Deer is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, three are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Newton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Deer [Newton County].
  • Manitoba
    • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Deer.
  • Missouri
    • Osage County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Deer [Osage County].
  • New Mexico
    • Hidalgo County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Deer [Hidalgo County].
  • Yukon
    • Please visit our profile page for the Yukon community of Deer.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Deer ...

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

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  Winston 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 Winston County.