Do you know of Alva ???

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

We found mention of Alva as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Jackson County, Wisconsin.

Communities Also Named Alva ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Alva.

Within Wisconsin, the name Alva is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, nine are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Lee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Alva [Lee County].
- Georgia
  - Jasper County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Alva [Jasper County].
- Kansas
  - Cloud County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Alva [Cloud County].
- Kentucky
  - Harlan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Alva [Harlan County].
- Mississippi
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Alva [Montgomery County].
  - Webster County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Alva [Webster County].
- Missouri
  - Boone County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Alva [Boone County].
- Oklahoma
  - Woods County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Alva [Woods County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Alva.
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Alva.
- Wyoming
  - Crook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Alva [Crook County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Alva ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Jackson 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 Jackson County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Alva 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.