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Welcome to Easonville ...

So far, we found very little information about Easonville. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Easonville to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Easonville, please Contact Us.

Easonville would have been located within present day Saint Clair County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Easonville, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1872. The community was inundated by Logan Martin Lake in 1964.

Time Zone: The area where Easonville was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel east from Easonville (for example, toward Tallapoosa (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

Communities near Easonville ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Easonville.

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 Easonville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Easonville.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Easonville. 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 Easonville.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Easonville. See our Newspapers Page for Easonville.

Adding Easonville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Easonville in the FIPS-55 file. For more information, see the Referenced FIPS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Easonville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Easonville post office opened in 1872.

We also found Easonville in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Easonville.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Easonville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Alabama's counties, including Saint Clair, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/