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Do you know of Rushton ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1902 and closed  in 1910.

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 Rushton ...

We found two communities that share the name Rushton.

Within Alabama, the name Rushton is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Michigan
      • Livingston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Rushton [Livingston County].
    • Tennessee
      • Montgomery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rushton [Montgomery County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rushton ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Chilton County ...

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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 Chilton County.

Alpha Springs 
Anderson's MillHunt's Siding
  
BensonLeslie
BurwellLily
  
ChiltonRuddick
Clear Creek 
 Shoults
Duke's SwitchSmithville
 Strasburgh
EnergySwift's Creek
  
Freeman's MillTate's Mill
  
GullahornWaddy

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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