Do you know of Pierce ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pierce. 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 Pierce.
Our sources for Pierce (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 Pierce other than they indicate that Pierce would be found somewhere in Mobile County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1894 and closed in 1912.
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 Pierce ...
We found 26 communities that share the name Pierce.
There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Pierce.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Colorado
- Weld County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Pierce [Weld County].
- Florida
- Idaho
- Clearwater County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Pierce [Clearwater County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Breckinridge 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 Kentucky community of Pierce [Breckinridge County].
- Green County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Pierce [Green County].
- Nebraska
- Pierce County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Pierce [Pierce County].
- Nevada
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Pierce [Clark County].
- New Mexico
- Hidalgo County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Pierce [Hidalgo County].
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- McIntosh County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Pierce [McIntosh County].
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Pierce [Allegheny County].
- Armstrong 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 Pennsylvania community of Pierce [Armstrong County].
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Wharton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Pierce [Wharton County].
- Washington
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Pierce [Benton County].
- West Virginia
- Tucker County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Pierce [Tucker County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pierce ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Pierce:
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.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Pierce.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 01/59712 (Place Name: Pierce)
County: Mobile (FIPS State/County: 01/097)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Pierce) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Mobile 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 Mobile 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 Pierce 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/ |