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Do you know of Ruby ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1886 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 Ruby ...

We found 32 communities that share the name Ruby.

There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Ruby.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 31 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Walker County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ruby [Walker County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alaska
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Ruby.
    • Arizona
      • Santa Cruz County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Ruby [Santa Cruz County].
    • Colorado
      • Gunnison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Ruby [Gunnison County].
      • Mesa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Ruby [Mesa County].
      • Pitkin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Ruby [Pitkin County].
    • Georgia
      • Irwin 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 Georgia community of Ruby [Irwin County].
      • Jones County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ruby [Jones County].
    • Idaho
      • Cassia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Ruby [Cassia County].
    • Illinois
      • Winnebago County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ruby [Winnebago County].
    • Kansas
      • Harper 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 Kansas community of Ruby [Harper County].
      • Sedgwick County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Ruby [Sedgwick County].
    • Kentucky
      • Bell 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 Ruby [Bell County].
    • Louisiana
      • Rapides Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ruby [Rapides Parish].
    • Michigan
      • Saint Clair County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Ruby [Saint Clair County].
    • Mississippi
      • Copiah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Ruby [Copiah County].
      • Leflore County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Ruby [Leflore County].
    • Montana
      • Madison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Ruby [Madison County].
    • Nebraska
      • Seward County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Ruby [Seward County].
    • Nevada
      • Elko County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Ruby [Elko County].
    • New York
      • Ulster County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ruby [Ulster County].
    • North Dakota
      • Nelson 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 North Dakota community of Ruby [Nelson County].
    • Ohio
      • Gallia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ruby [Gallia County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ruby.
    • Oregon
      • Multnomah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Ruby [Multnomah County].
    • South Carolina
      • Chesterfield County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ruby [Chesterfield County].
    • Virginia
      • Stafford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ruby [Stafford County].
    • Washington
      • Benton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Ruby [Benton County].
      • Okanogan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Ruby [Okanogan County].
      • Pend Oreille County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Ruby [Pend Oreille County].
      • Whatcom County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Ruby [Whatcom County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Chippewa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Ruby [Chippewa County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ruby ...

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

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 Ruby - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Cullman 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 Cullman County.

Baileys Mill 
BosenbergKatie
Bright 
BurkardLoyd
Bushy Pond 
 May Apple
CarlMcNab
ClarksonMount Vernon
Crooked Creek 
 Needmore
Dreher 
DrherPinnacle
 Plunket
Ebenezer 
EthaSaint Bernard
 Stouts Mountain
Fall Creek 
 Tillery
Hobart 
Holmes GapUnity
  
Iron BridgeWatanama
 Wheat
JohnsonWhetstone

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 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 Ruby 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/









 

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