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Gainestown

Gainestown is an unincorporated community on the Alabama River in , , United States. It was named for George Strother Gaines, who was the senior United States Indian agent in the region; he established a trading post here in 1809 for business with the Choctaw, the predominant tribe.
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  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: unincorporated community in Alabama
  • Also known as: “Gainestown, AL”, “Gainestown, Alabama”, and “Gainstown”
  • Postal code: 36540

Gainestown

Latitude
31.44544° or 31° 26′ 44″ north
Longitude
-87.69333° or 87° 41′ 36″ west
Elevation
266 feet (81 metres)
Open location code
863JC8W4+5M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153391001
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
4063647
Wiki­data ID
Q5517238
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Spanish—“Gainestown” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “蓋恩斯敦”
  • French: “Gainestown”
  • Indonesian: “Gainestown, alabama”
  • Indonesian: “Gainestown, Alabama”
  • Indonesian: “Gainestown”
  • Irish: “Gainestown”
  • Persian: “گینزتاون، آلاباما”
  • Persian: “گینزتاون”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قینزتاون، آلاباما”
  • Spanish: “Gainestown”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gainestown”. Photo: Altairisfar, CC BY-SA 3.0.