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Do you know of Eagle ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1880 and closed  in 1891.

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 Eagle ...

We found 28 communities that share the name Eagle.

There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Eagle.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 26 communities, 25 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

In addition to the above occurrences of Eagle, we know of another community located outside of the United States and Canada.

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Winston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Eagle [Winston County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alaska
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Eagle.
    • Colorado
      • Eagle County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Eagle [Eagle County].
    • Idaho
      • Ada County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Eagle [Ada County].
      • Shoshone County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Eagle [Shoshone County].
    • Illinois
      • Saline County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Eagle [Saline County].
    • Indiana
      • Sullivan 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 Indiana community of Eagle [Sullivan County].
    • Kansas
      • Barber County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Eagle [Barber County].
      • Cherokee 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 Kansas community of Eagle [Cherokee County].
    • Michigan
      • Clinton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Eagle [Clinton County].
    • Mississippi
      • Alcorn 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 Mississippi community of Eagle [Alcorn County].
    • Montana
      • Carbon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Eagle [Carbon County].
    • Nebraska
      • Cass County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Eagle [Cass County].
      • Holt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Eagle [Holt County].
    • New Jersey
      • Burlington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Eagle [Burlington County].
    • New York
      • Wyoming County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Eagle [Wyoming County].
    • North Carolina
      • Iredell 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 North Carolina community of Eagle [Iredell County].
    • Ohio
      • Vinton 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 Ohio community of Eagle [Vinton County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Eagle.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Chester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Eagle [Chester County].
      • Warren 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 Pennsylvania community of Eagle [Warren County].
    • Quebec
      • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Eagle.
    • South Dakota
      • Brule County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Eagle [Brule County].
    • Tennessee
      • Lawrence 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 Tennessee community of Eagle [Lawrence County].
    • Virginia
      • Wythe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Eagle [Wythe County].
    • West Virginia
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Eagle [Fayette County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Waukesha County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Eagle [Waukesha County].
  • Communities Beyond North America ...
    • England
      • We haven't found the location of this Eagle

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Eagle ...

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

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 Eagle - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Walker 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 Walker County.

Allen 
Argo HeightsKilgo
 Kings
BergensKlondike
  
ChickasawLeespeer
ClarkLeith
CloughLeland
CoalLuckey
Colta 
CormickMcCullum
Creel Town 
 New Dora
Dixie 
 Oakland
Est 
 Parkland
Galloway 
Gamble MinesRonald
Gravleeton 
GurganusSegco
 Stansbury
Hillard 
Horse CreekTiger Mines
 Tryst
Jagger 
JimhillWest Pratt
JugWilmington

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Eagle 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/









 

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