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Welcome to Hale ...So far, we found very little information about Hale. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Hale to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Hale, please Contact Us. Hale would have been located within present day Etowah County<2>. The location of Hale has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Hale, you might consider that their post office opened in 1892. While the community is gone, the present day location for Hale is 570 feet [174 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Hale was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Hale (for example, toward Etna (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Communities Also Named Hale ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 29 communities that are also named Hale - they are located in Arkansas (2), British Columbia, Colorado (2), Iowa, Kansas (2), Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Brunswick, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario (2), Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee (2), Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Hale. Communities near Hale ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Hale.
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 Hale. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Hale. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Hale. 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 Hale. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Hale. See our Newspapers Page for Hale. Adding Hale to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Hale 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 Hale was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Hale on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Hale. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Etowah County: www.etowahcounty.org/ The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/ Footnotes ...
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