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Do you know of Battonville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Battonville. 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 Battonville.<1>

We found mention of Battonville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Alachua County, Florida.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1875 and closed  in 1883.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Battonville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

More Orphans in  Alachua 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 Alachua County.

Clear LakeMounteocha
Colegrove 
ConeNorth Gainesville
Cyril 
 Oak Crest
East AlachuaOliver Park
 Osceola
Forest Ridge 
Fort ClarkPalmer
Frankland 
 Ridgewood
Gainesville East 
Gainesville NorthSanta Fe Lake
Gainesville WestSante Fe
GracyShiloh
 Skyland Heights
Hammock RidgeSocastee
HammockSpring Grove
HydroStewartsville
  
KanaphaTrenton
 Tungroc
Lexington 
Libby HeightsVillage Green
  
Millhopper CenterYular

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>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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