Do you know of North River ???

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

We found mention of North River as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Tuscaloosa 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 1849 and closed  in 1884.

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 North River ...

We found eight communities that share the name North River.

Within Alabama, the name North River is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Missouri
    • Marion County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of North River [Marion County].
  • New York
    • Warren County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of North River [Warren County].
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
    • Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of North River.
  • North Carolina
    • Carteret County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of North River [Carteret County].
  • North Dakota
    • Cass County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of North River [Cass County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of North River.
  • Prince Edward Island
    • Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of North River.
  • Virginia
    • Rockingham County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of North River [Rockingham County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for North River ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  Tuscaloosa 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 Tuscaloosa County.