Do you know of River Bend ???

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

Our sources for River Bend (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 River Bend other than they indicate that River Bend would be found somewhere in Bibb County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1903.

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 River Bend ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name River Bend.

There are two communities within Alabama that are also named River Bend.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Cullman County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of River Bend [Cullman County].
- Tallapoosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of River Bend [Tallapoosa County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
  - Elbert 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 Colorado community of River Bend [Elbert County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of River Bend [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
  - Dougherty County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of River Bend [Dougherty County].
- Louisiana
  - Bossier Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of River Bend [Bossier Parish].
  - Saint Bernard Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of River Bend [Saint Bernard Parish].
- Maryland
  - Prince George's 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 Maryland community of River Bend [Prince George's County].
- Michigan
  - Clinton 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 Michigan community of River Bend [Clinton County].
- Missouri
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of River Bend [Jackson County].
- North Carolina
  - Craven County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of River Bend [Craven County].
- Texas
  - Hidalgo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of River Bend [Hidalgo County].
  - Newton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of River Bend [Newton County].
- Virginia
  - Stafford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of River Bend [Stafford County].
- West Virginia
  - Kanawha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of River Bend [Kanawha County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for River Bend ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Bibb 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 Bibb County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 River Bend 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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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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