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Welcome to Fountainrun ...So far, we found very little information about Fountainrun. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Fountainrun to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Fountainrun, please Contact Us. Fountainrun would have been located within present day Saint Clair County<2>. The location of Fountainrun has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Fountainrun, you might consider that their post office opened in 1900. While the community is gone, the present day location for Fountainrun is 470 feet [143 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Fountainrun was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you leave Fountainrun and travel east, you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Communities near Fountainrun ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Fountainrun.
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 Fountainrun. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Fountainrun. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Fountainrun. 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 Fountainrun. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Fountainrun. See our Newspapers Page for Fountainrun. Adding Fountainrun to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Fountainrun 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 Fountainrun was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Fountainrun on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Fountainrun. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Saint Clair County: www.stclairco.com/ The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/ Footnotes ...
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