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Do you know of Inland ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Inland. 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 Inland.

Our sources for Inland (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 Inland other than they indicate that Inland would be found somewhere in Blount County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1908 and closed  in 1924.

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 Inland ...

We found nine communities that share the name Inland.

Within Alabama, the name Inland is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, eight are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Inland.
    • Kansas
      • Greenwood 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 Kansas community of Inland [Greenwood County].
    • Michigan
      • Benzie 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 Michigan community of Inland [Benzie County].
      • Schoolcraft County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Inland [Schoolcraft County].
    • Nebraska
      • Clay County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Inland [Clay County].
    • New York
      • Erie 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 New York community of Inland [Erie County].
    • North Carolina
      • Moore 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 North Carolina community of Inland [Moore County].
    • Ohio
      • Ashtabula County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Inland [Ashtabula County].
      • Summit 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 Ohio community of Inland [Summit County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Inland ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Inland:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Inland.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 01/37624   (Place Name: Inland)

County: Blount     (FIPS State/County: 01/009)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Inland) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Blount 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 Blount County.

BalmIndland Junction
 Isom
Cabot 
Center SpringsLauna
ConcordLime Siding
Country 
CraigeMaynor
 Mount Alvis
Deavers TownMurphree Valley
Deavertown 
DoverQuarry Siding
Dubois 
 Rockland
Garrison Point 
Greens ChapelSnead Crossroads
 Sulphur Springs
Hanby's Mills 
HancevilleTidmore
Harkness 
HendrickVillage Springs
Hendricks 
HuntWillow
 Wooten

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Inland 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/









 

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