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Do you know of West Calera ???

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

Our sources for West Calera (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 West Calera other than they indicate that West Calera would be found somewhere in Shelby County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1889 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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Calera ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Shelby 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 Shelby County.

AveryLacey's
 Landmark
Booth TownLewis
BoxLynch
  
CloddyNewala
Coalville 
CobbPhillips Crossroads
CovePiney Woods Junction
Cresswell Station 
Creswell StationQuito
  
Dare's KilnRedlawn
  
Earhart's MillScotrock
 Simmons
FarmerSpradley
  
HighlandTafton
Hot Spur 
 Wannamaker
KendrickWeldon
Kimulga 
 Yellowleaf

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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