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Welcome to Saville ...

Saville is located in Crenshaw County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Saville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1872.

Saville is 480 feet [146 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Saville lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Saville: 334 & 483<3>

Communities Also Named Saville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Saville - it's located in Pennsylvania.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Saville.

Communities near Saville ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Saville.

  • Greenville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Luverne
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Fort Deposit
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Rutledge
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Rutledge is located in Crenshaw County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rutledge
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 449 people
  • Goshen
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Glenwood
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Petrey
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Petrey is located in Crenshaw County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petrey
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 57 people
  • Honoraville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Honoraville is located in Crenshaw County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Honoraville
  • Highland Home
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Lapine
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Lapine is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lapine

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Saville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Saville.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Saville. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Saville.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Saville. See our Newspapers Page for Saville.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Saville ...

Looking for more information about Saville? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Saville, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Saville.

Adding Saville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Saville in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Saville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Saville post office opened in 1872. The Saville post office closed in 1904.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Saville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Alabama's counties, including Crenshaw, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Saville - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 334 code has been Overlayed with the 483 area code. New phone numbers in the Saville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 334 or 483. As a result, placing a call in the Saville area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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