Do you know of Leslie ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Leslie. 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 Leslie.
Our sources for Leslie (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 Leslie other than they indicate that Leslie would be found somewhere in Clay County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1903.
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 Leslie ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Leslie.
There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Leslie.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 23 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Searcy County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Leslie [Searcy County].
- Colorado
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Leslie [Washington County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Leslie [Sumter County].
- Idaho
- Custer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Leslie [Custer County].
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Leslie [Clarke County].
- Kansas
- Reno County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Leslie [Reno County].
- Kentucky
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Leslie [Cumberland County].
- Louisiana
- Bossier Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Leslie [Bossier Parish].
- Maryland
- Cecil County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Leslie [Cecil County].
- Michigan
- Ingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Leslie [Ingham County].
- Missouri
- New York
- Ohio
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Leslie.
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Leslie.
- Texas
- Virginia
- Roanoke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Leslie [Roanoke County].
- West Virginia
- Greenbrier County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Leslie [Greenbrier County].
- Wisconsin
- Lafayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Leslie [Lafayette County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Leslie ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Leslie:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Leslie - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Clay 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 Clay County.
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 Leslie 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/ |