Do you know of Alhambra ???

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

Our sources for Alhambra (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Alhambra other than they indicate that Alhambra would be found somewhere in Nelson County, Virginia.

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 Alhambra ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Alhambra.

There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Alhambra.

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

• Communities Located In Virginia ...
  • Amherst County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Alhambra [Amherst County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alberta
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Alhambra.
  • Arizona
    • Maricopa County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Alhambra [Maricopa County].
  • California
    • Los Angeles County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Alhambra [Los Angeles County].
  • Illinois
    • Madison County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Alhambra [Madison County].
  • Kentucky
    • Robertson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Alhambra [Robertson County].
  • Louisiana
    • Iberville Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Alhambra [Iberville Parish].
  • Mississippi
    • Washington County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Alhambra [Washington County].
  • Montana
    • Jefferson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Alhambra [Jefferson County].
  • New Mexico
    • Grant County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Alhambra [Grant County].
  • Oklahoma
    • Alhambra #1
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Alhambra.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Alhambra ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Alhambra - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Nelson 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 Nelson County.