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Welcome to Dry Cove ...So far, we found very little information about Dry Cove. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Dry Cove to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Dry Cove, please Contact Us. Dry Cove would have been located within present day Jackson County<2>. The location of Dry Cove has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Dry Cove, you might consider that their post office opened in 1870. A typical abbreviation for Dry Cove: Dry Cv. While the community is gone, the present day location for Dry Cove is 590 feet [180 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Dry Cove was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Dry Cove (for example, toward Menlo (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). If Dry Cove still existed, it would have been in the (256) and (938)<5> area codes. Communities near Dry Cove ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Dry Cove.
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 Dry Cove. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Dry Cove. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Dry Cove. 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 Dry Cove. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Dry Cove. See our Newspapers Page for Dry Cove. Adding Dry Cove to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Dry Cove 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 Dry Cove was in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870). We also found Dry Cove in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Dry Cove. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/ Footnotes ...
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