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Do you know of Pickering ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Pickering, so we are uncertain whether Pickering is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Pickering would be found somewhere in Dallas 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 Pickering ...

We found eight communities that share the name Pickering.

Within Alabama, the name Pickering is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Union County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Pickering [Union County].
    • Iowa
      • Marshall County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Pickering [Marshall County].
    • Louisiana
      • Vernon Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Pickering [Vernon Parish].
    • Mississippi
      • Covington 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 Pickering [Covington County].
    • Missouri
      • Nodaway County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Pickering [Nodaway County].
    • New Hampshire
      • Strafford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Pickering [Strafford County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Pickering.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Chester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Pickering [Chester County].

More Orphans in  Dallas 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 Dallas County.

AlametMartin's Station
AlbertMcDonald
 Milhous
Bland'sMinters
BoguechittoMoro
BridgesMorrowville
Bugville 
 North Selma
Clematis 
CrawfordReynolds
  
DallasSalt Marsh
DallastonSelmont - West Selmont
 Sherret Hill
EarpSmithfield
ElizabethSoapstone
  
Gulf JunctionTate
 Terry
HunterTriumph
  
JonesValegrande
 Vallegrande
Logan's 
LongWarrenton
 White Bluff
MaltzWoodlawn

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 Pickering 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.









 

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