This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jackson, Kincaid, Culver, Wingard, Thornton, Grier, Smith, Gray Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SU.2ADI/2357.1.1.1 Message Board Post: One of my favorite resources for finding places is the USGS web site. Visit http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/ to try it out. A search for "new providence" in Alabama -- not specifying anything else -- produced a list of 17 results. That list shows New Providence and a same-named church in Tallapoosa County. It also shows (at the end of the list) a historical post office entry in Crenshaw County. That would appear to confirm that it no longer exists. = Steve =