Welcome to Prentice ...

So far, we found very little information about Prentice. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Prentice to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Prentice - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Prentice, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Prentice , we believe that it would have been located within present day Marengo County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Prentice, you might consider that their post office opened in 1906.

Time Zone: The area where Prentice was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Code where Prentice was located: 334

Communities Also Named Prentice ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named Prentice - they are located in Illinois, Ohio (2), Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Prentice.

Adding Prentice to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Prentice was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

X2X - From that list, the Prentice post office opened in 1906.

We also found Prentice on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Prentice.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Prentice, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Alabama's counties, including Marengo, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/