Do you know of Dublin ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dublin. 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 Dublin.
Our sources for Dublin (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 Dublin other than they indicate that Dublin would be found somewhere in Fayette County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1846 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 Dublin ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Dublin.
There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Dublin.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 26 communities, 26 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Dublin [Montgomery County].
- Montgomery County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Graham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Dublin [Graham County].
- Arkansas
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Dublin [Logan County].
- California
- Alameda County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Dublin [Alameda County].
- Connecticut
- New London County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Dublin [New London County].
- Florida
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Dublin [Lake County].
- Georgia
- Laurens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Dublin [Laurens County].
- Indiana
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Dublin [Wayne County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Graves County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Dublin [Graves County].
- Maryland
- Harford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Dublin [Harford County].
- Somerset County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Dublin [Somerset County].
- Michigan
- Manistee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Dublin [Manistee County].
- Mississippi
- Coahoma County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Dublin [Coahoma County].
- Missouri
- Barton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Dublin [Barton County].
- Nebraska
- New Hampshire
- Cheshire County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Dublin [Cheshire County].
- New York
- Seneca County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Dublin [Seneca County].
- North Carolina
- Bladen County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dublin [Bladen County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Dublin.
- Pennsylvania
- Bucks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Dublin [Bucks County].
- Texas
- Erath County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Dublin [Erath County].
- Virginia
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Dublin [Pulaski County].
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dublin ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dublin:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Dublin - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Fayette 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 Fayette County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Dublin 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |