Do you know of Martel ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1902 and closed  in 1904.

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 Martel ...

We found five communities that share the name Martel.

Within Alabama, the name Martel is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, three are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • British Columbia
    • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Martel.
  • Florida
    • Marion County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Martel [Marion County].
  • Ohio
    • Marion County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Martel [Marion County].
  • Quebec
    • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Martel.
  • Tennessee
    • Loudon County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Martel [Loudon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Martel ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Talladega County ...

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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 Talladega County.