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Do you know of Krafton ???

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

We found mention of Krafton as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Mobile County, Alabama.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1943 and closed  in 1961.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Krafton ...

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Krafton.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 01/40432   (Place Name: Krafton)

County: Mobile     (FIPS State/County: 01/097)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Krafton) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Mobile 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 Mobile County.

AdamsLoop
 Loring
Bayou Sara 
Beaver MeadowMagazine Point
Bel AirManville
BienvilleMechlin
BlakelyMobile River
Brookley 
 Otis Mill
Cantebury HeightsOverlook
Cedar Creek 
ChickasaboguePierce
Chickasaw TerracePinto Island
Cleveland 
Cold CreekReiking
  
Four Mile PostSilver Creek
Fulton RoadSulphur Springs
  
GarrityTerminal Junction
 Three Notches
Hollingers Island 
 Umbria
Ingate 
 Venetia
Kipling 
 West Mobile
LemoyneWestern Hills

Footnotes ...

<1>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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This page was last modified/updated: 09 Mar 2024