Welcome to Alma ...

So far, we found very little information about Alma. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Alma to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Alma - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Alma, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Alma , we believe that it would have been located within present day Pinal County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Alma, you might consider that their post office opened in 1891.

Time Zone: The area where Alma was located is in the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) and does not observe daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Alma ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 41 communities that are also named Alma - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, California (2), Colorado, Florida, Georgia (3), Illinois (2), Kansas (2), Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Mexico (2), New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ohio (2), Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, South Carolina, Texas (3), Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

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

Adding Alma to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Alma was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Alma post office opened in 1891.

We also found Alma in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Alma.

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Alma, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Arizona's counties, including Pinal, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/