Do you know of Fair Play ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fair Play. 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 Fair Play.<1>
We found mention of Fair Play as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Randolph County, Alabama.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1870 and closed in 1874.
Communities Also Named Fair Play ...
We found eight communities that share the name Fair Play.
Within Alabama, the name Fair Play is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Missouri
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Fair Play [Polk County].
- Nevada
- Elko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Fair Play [Elko County].
- New Jersey
- Monmouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Fair Play [Monmouth County].
- South Carolina
- Oconee County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Fair Play [Oconee County].
- Texas
- Panola County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Fair Play [Panola County].
- Wisconsin
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Fair Play [Grant County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fair Play ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fair Play:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Randolph 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 Randolph County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |