Sky Ball, Alabama | |
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  Sky Ball, Alabama  Sky Ball, Alabama | |
| Coordinates: 34°01′19″N86°38′10″W / 34.02194°N 86.63611°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Blount |
| Elevation | 758 ft (231 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 205 |
| GNIS feature ID | 157070 [1] |
Sky Ball, also spelled Skyball, is an unincorporated community and former city in Blount County, Alabama, United States. [2] Sky Ball has been noted for its unusual place name. [3]
Intercourse is an unincorporated community located at a crossroads in Sumter County, Alabama, United States. A post office called Intercourse was established in 1840, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1913. It is named for the traffic intersection of the town's crossroads. Although a share of the residents want the unusual name changed to Siloam, state maps still identify the place as Intercourse.
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Long Island is an unincorporated community in the northeastern corner of Jackson County, Alabama, United States. Long Island appears on the Bridgeport U.S. Geological Survey Map. It was reportedly named Carpenter for a family that lived there prior to 1852, when it was given the English form of the original Cherokee name of the village on the long island in the Tennessee River dating from 1783.
Ball Glacier is a glacier 7 nautical miles (13 km) long with the head located between Mount Lister and Mount Hooker on the east side of the Royal Society Range. The glacier flows northeast between Craw Ridge and Tasman Ridge into Blue Glacier. It was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board after Gary Ball, a New Zealand mountaineer who climbed Mount Lister with an Italian field party, 1976–77, and camped on this glacier; he was field assistant with R.H. Findlay's New Zealand Antarctic Research Program party to this area, 1980–81.
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Frog Eye is an unincorporated community in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States.
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Hustleville, also known as Hustle, is an unincorporated community in Marshall County, Alabama, United States.
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