Salitpa, Alabama

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Salitpa
Unincorporated community
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Salitpa
Location in Alabama.
Coordinates: 31°37′47″N88°01′12″W / 31.62972°N 88.02000°W / 31.62972; -88.02000
Country United States
State Alabama
County Clarke
Elevation
180 ft (50 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 251
GNIS feature ID153303 [1]

Salitpa is an unincorporated community in Clarke County, Alabama. It has also been known as River Hill. [2]

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History

A post office called Salitpa has been in operation since 1855. [3] The community took its name from nearby Satilpa Creek. An error in writing the name (crossing the L instead of the T) when applying for a post office resulted in the name being changed. [4]

Notable person

Salitpa was the home of Ray Prim, a minor league baseball star in the Pacific Coast League with the Los Angeles Angels from 1936 to 1942, again in 1944 and in 1947. [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Salitpa". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Clarke County Historical Society (1977). Historical Sketches of Clarke County, Alabama: A Story of the Communities of Clarke County, Alabama. Huntsville, Alabama: Strode Publishers. p. 312.
  3. ↑ "Clarke County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Cat Mash among state's funny town names". The Tuscaloosa News. September 28, 1991. pp. 3B. Retrieved April 28, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Ray Prim". Minor League Baseball . Retrieved June 5, 2014.


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