Welcome to Alva ...

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

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

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Alva, you might consider that their post office opened in 1871.

Time Zone: The area where Alva was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Code where Alva was located: 785

Communities Also Named Alva ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 11 communities that are also named Alva - they are located in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi (2), Missouri, Oklahoma, Ontario, Quebec, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

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

Adding Alva to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

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

X2X - From that list, the Alva post office opened in 1871.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Alva.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/

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 Alva, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Kansas' counties, including Cloud, 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/