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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Harpersville came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Harpersville in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Harpersville. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Harpersville data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Harpersville:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Southern States
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2001
(Available from Amazon.com)

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Shell Oil Map of Alabama (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

Harpersville is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

We found Harpersville in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Harpersville for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Harpersville. See our Misc Page for Harpersville for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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