Do you know of Mayfield ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mayfield. 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 Mayfield.
Our sources for Mayfield (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 Mayfield other than they indicate that Mayfield would be found somewhere in Pickens County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1902 and closed in 1922.
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 Mayfield ...
We found 39 communities that share the name Mayfield.
Within Alabama, the name Mayfield is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 39 communities, 34 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Mayfield.
- Arkansas
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Mayfield [Washington County].
- California
- Santa Clara County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Mayfield [Santa Clara County].
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Mayfield [New Castle County].
- Georgia
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Mayfield [Hancock County].
- Idaho
- Elmore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Mayfield [Elmore County].
- Indiana
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Mayfield [Delaware County].
- Kansas
- Sumner County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Mayfield [Sumner County].
- Kentucky
- Graves County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Mayfield [Graves County].
- Maine
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Mayfield.
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Grand Traverse County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mayfield [Grand Traverse County].
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Bollinger County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Mayfield [Bollinger County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Mayfield.
- New York
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Mayfield [Fulton County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Beckham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Mayfield [Beckham County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Mayfield.
- Pennsylvania
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Mayfield.
- South Carolina
- Greenville County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Mayfield [Greenville County].
- South Dakota
- Yankton County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Mayfield [Yankton County].
- Tennessee
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mayfield [Jackson County].
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Fredericksburg City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mayfield [Fredericksburg City].
- Henrico 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 Virginia community of Mayfield [Henrico County].
- Lynchburg City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mayfield [Lynchburg City].
- Washington
- Lewis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Mayfield [Lewis County].
- Wisconsin
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Mayfield [Washington County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mayfield ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mayfield:
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.
More Orphans in Pickens 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 Pickens 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Mayfield 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/ |