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Do you know of Albright ???

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

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

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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1902 and closed  in 1907.

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 Albright ...

We found nine communities that share the name Albright.

Within Kentucky, the name Albright is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, eight are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Albright.
    • Illinois
      • Clark County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Albright [Clark County].
    • Minnesota
      • Wright County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Albright [Wright County].
    • Montana
      • Cascade County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Albright [Cascade County].
      • Rosebud County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Albright [Rosebud County].
    • Nebraska
      • Douglas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Albright [Douglas County].
    • North Carolina
      • Alamance County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Albright [Alamance County].
    • Tennessee
      • Sumner County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Albright [Sumner County].
    • West Virginia
      • Preston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Albright [Preston County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Albright ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Albright.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 21/00748   (Place Name: Albright)

County: Lincoln     (FIPS State/County: 21/137)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Albright) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Lincoln 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 Lincoln County.

ArabiaKnob Lick
 Kriger
Barnett 
 Lytle
Ewell 
 Perkins
Gilbert's CreekPleasant Point
Greenbrier 
 Saufley
Kingsville 

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Albright could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>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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