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Online Gazetteers

 * Berney, Saffold. Handbook of Alabama: A Complete Index to the State, With Map. Second Edition, Revised. Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts and Son, 1892. . This has historical information about the state, its counties, and major cities. Pages 66–76 list the counties and the precincts. The handbook also contains information about Alabama courts on pages 93–98 and 540–547. Coal mines are listed on page 473, and cotton mills are listed on pages 487–490.
 * https://digital.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-lincoln%3A37491

Print Only Gazetteers

 * Foscue, Virginia O. Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1989. . This book contains historical and geographical information about counties, cities, towns, settlements, rivers, creeks, lakes, and mountains.
 * Harris, W. Stuart. Dead Towns of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1977. . This contains alphabetical lists of towns, forts, and Indian towns and villages and their location. It is indexed.

Why Use Gazetteers
A gazetteer is a dictionary of place-names. Gazetteers list or describe towns and villages, parishes, states, populations, rivers and mountains, and other geographical features. They usually include only the names of places that existed at the time the gazetteer was published. Within a specific geographical area, the place-names are listed in alphabetical order, similar to a dictionary. You can use a gazetteer to locate the places where your family lived and to determine the civil and religious jurisdictions over those places.

There are many places within a state with similar or identical place-names. You will need to use a gazetteer to identify the specific town where your ancestor lived, the state the town was or is in, and the jurisdictions where records about the person was kept.

Gazetteer Contents
Gazetteers may also provide additional information about towns, such as:


 * Different religious denominations
 * Schools, colleges, and universities
 * Major manufacturers, canals, docks, and railroad stations
 * The population size.
 * Boundaries of civil jurisdiction.
 * Ecclesiastical jurisdiction(s)
 * Longitude and latitude.
 * Distances and direction from other from cities.
 * Schools, colleges, and universities.
 * Denominations and number of churches.
 * Historical and biographical information on some individuals (usually high-ranking or famous individuals)