Do you know of White Oak Springs ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about White Oak Springs. 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 White Oak Springs.

Our sources for White Oak Springs (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 White Oak Springs other than they indicate that White Oak Springs would be found somewhere in Barbour County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1839 and closed  in 1932.

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 White Oak Springs ...

We found three communities that share the name White Oak Springs.

Within Alabama, the name White Oak Springs is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Illinois
    • Brown County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of White Oak Springs [Brown County].
  • Texas
    • Titus County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of White Oak Springs [Titus County].
  • West Virginia
    • Preston County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of White Oak Springs [Preston County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for White Oak Springs ...

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

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 White Oak Springs - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Barbour 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 Barbour County.