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Do you know of Rayner ???

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

Our sources for Rayner (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 Rayner other than they indicate that Rayner would be found somewhere in Cherokee County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1891.

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 Rayner ...

We found one communities that share the name Rayner.

Within Alabama, the name Rayner is unique.

Beyond Alabama, there is another community also named Rayner in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Texas
      • Stonewall County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rayner [Stonewall County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rayner ...

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

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Rayner - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Cherokee 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 Cherokee County.

BidLay
BissellLoop
Blaine 
BurnettMcGhees Bend
 Mill Ford
Chance 
 New Goshen
Davis Cross Roads 
 Pollards Bend
Edna 
EgoRaynes
  
FirestoneStraight Neck
  
GoshenTaff
  
HancockWeeda
Howel's Cross RoadsWharton
  
Langdon CityYellow Creek Falls

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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