Do you know of Griffin ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Griffin. 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 Griffin.
Our sources for Griffin (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 Griffin other than they indicate that Griffin would be found somewhere in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 and closed in 1909.
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 Griffin ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Griffin.
There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Griffin.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 26 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Griffin [Cherokee County].
- Cherokee County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Griffin [Union County].
- Colorado
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Griffin [Morgan County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Spalding County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Griffin [Spalding County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Posey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Griffin [Posey County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Bullitt 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 Kentucky community of Griffin [Bullitt County].
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Griffin [Wayne County].
- Louisiana
- Franklin Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Griffin [Franklin Parish].
- Madison Parish
- 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 Louisiana community of Griffin [Madison Parish].
- Maryland
- Caroline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Griffin [Caroline County].
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- New York
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Griffin [Hamilton County].
- North Dakota
- Bowman County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Griffin [Bowman County].
- Ohio
- Muskingum County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Griffin [Muskingum County].
- Pennsylvania
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Griffin [Fayette 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 Pennsylvania community of Griffin [Somerset County].
- Westmoreland County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Griffin [Westmoreland County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Griffin.
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Griffin.
- Tennessee
- Houston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Griffin [Houston County].
- Texas
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Griffin [Cherokee County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Griffin ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Griffin:
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 Griffin - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Tuscaloosa 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 Tuscaloosa 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 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 Griffin 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/ |