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Welcome to Kearney ...So far, we found very little information about Kearney. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Kearney to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Kearney, please Contact Us. Kearney would have been located within present day Calhoun County<2>. The location of Kearney has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Kearney, you might consider that their post office opened in 1882. While the community is gone, the present day location for Kearney is 680 feet [207 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Kearney was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Kearney (for example, toward Buchanan (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Kearney would have been located in the (256) & (938)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Kearney ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 18 communities that are also named Kearney - they are located in Arkansas, California, Kansas (3), Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ontario (3), Pennsylvania (2) and South Carolina. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Kearney. Communities near Kearney ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Kearney.
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 Kearney. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Kearney. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Kearney. 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 Kearney. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Kearney. See our Newspapers Page for Kearney. Adding Kearney to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Kearney 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 Kearney was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> For more details, see References and Mentions for Kearney. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Calhoun County: www.calhouncounty.org/ The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/ Footnotes ...
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