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Do you know of Richardsville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Richardsville. 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 Richardsville.<1>

We found mention of Richardsville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in DeKalb 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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1871 and closed  in 1874.

Communities Also Named Richardsville ...

We found six communities that share the name Richardsville.

Within Alabama, the name Richardsville is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kentucky
      • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Richardsville [Warren County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Richardsville.
    • New York
      • Putnam County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Richardsville [Putnam County].
    • Oklahoma
      • McIntosh County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Richardsville [McIntosh County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Richardsville [Jefferson County].
    • Virginia
      • Culpeper County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Richardsville [Culpeper County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Richardsville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

More Orphans in  DeKalb 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 DeKalb County.

AllenJackson Station
AllensJude
Andrew's Institute 
AnnawaikaLarusage
AroneyLaurel
AtwoodLaysville
 Lookout
BaileyLoving
Black Oak 
Bowmans CrossroadsMarchman
BrandonMynard
  
Camp StationNewsome
ColibranNicholson's Gap
CoxvilleNightingale
 North Bend
Dogwood 
Duck SpringPea Ridge
 Pierceville
EmmittonPorterville
  
FerroRick Rack
 Rocbridge
GadRodgers
Gale 
GipsonSand Mountain
Green ChapelSauty Mills
 Scott
HalfordStella
Hardin 
HendricksvilleVan Buren
HigdonViewpoint
Hughes 
 Worth

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>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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