Do you know of Morganville ???

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

Our sources for Morganville (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Morganville other than they indicate that Morganville would be found somewhere in Lowndes County, Alabama.

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 Morganville ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Morganville.

Within Alabama, the name Morganville is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Marion 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 Florida community of Morganville [Marion County].
- Georgia
  - Dade County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Morganville [Dade County].
- Illinois
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Morganville [Jefferson County].
- Kansas
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Morganville [Clay County].
- Mississippi
  - Lafayette 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 Mississippi community of Morganville [Lafayette County].
- Missouri
  - Polk 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 Missouri community of Morganville [Polk County].
- New Jersey
  - Monmouth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Morganville [Monmouth County].
- New York
  - Genesee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Morganville [Genesee County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Morganville.
- Ohio
  - Morgan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Morganville [Morgan County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Morganville [Montgomery County].
- Tennessee
  - Marion 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 Tennessee community of Morganville [Marion County].
  - Maury County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Morganville [Maury County].
- Washington
  - King County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Morganville [King County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Morganville ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Morganville - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Morganville.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 01/51384 (Place Name: Morganville)

County: Lowndes (FIPS State/County: 01/085)

Class: X3

More Orphans in Lowndes 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 Lowndes County.

Burkeville	Judges Siding

Charity	Laneville
Cloverfield	Letohatchie
	Lowndesboro Station
Drane
	Prairie Hill
Ghivens
	Sunny Side
Hutchinson's Lane
	Whitman

Footnotes ...

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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 Morganville 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.