Roxana, Alabama

Roxana
Unincorporated community
Roxana United Methodist Church
Roxana Show map of Alabama Roxana Show map of the US Location within the state of Alabama
Coordinates: 32°41′13″N 85°40′09″W / 32.68694°N 85.66917°W / 32.68694; -85.66917Coordinates: 32°41′13″N 85°40′09″W / 32.68694°N 85.66917°W / 32.68694; -85.66917
Country	United States
State	Alabama
County	Lee
Elevation	738 ft (225 m)
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-6)
GNIS feature ID	125999^[1]

Roxana, also known as Rock Springs, is an unincorporated community northwesterly located in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It lies seven miles (12 km) north of Notasulga and five miles (8 km) southwest of Waverly. It is part of the Columbus, Georgia-Alabama Metropolitan Area.

History

Roxana was originally named Rock Springs. Since there was already a Rock Springs post office registered in Alabama, Samuel A. Burns, the first postmaster, devised a new name. He combined "rocks" and "Anna", the name of his wife, to come up with Roxana.^[2] A post office operated under the name Roxana from 1882 to 1908.^[3]

References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Roxana, Alabama
↑ Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 121. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
↑ "Lee County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 2 January 2015.

Municipalities and communities of Lee County, Alabama, United States

County seat: Opelika

Cities	Auburn Opelika Phenix City‡ Smiths Station

Towns	Loachapoka Notasulga‡ Waverly‡

Unincorporated communities	Beauregard Bee Hive Beulah Chewacla Gold Hill Hopewell Marvyn Roxana Salem The Bottle

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Greater Columbus, Georgia

Central cities/Largest cities	Columbus Auburn	Location of the Columbus, Georgia-Auburn, Alabama CSA and its counties: Columbus, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area Auburn, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area Tuskegee, Alabama Micropolitan Statistical Area (defunct)

Cities in Georgia	Bibb City Buena Vista Cataula Columbus Cusseta Custer Terrace Fort Benning South Fortson Hamilton Hopewell Juniper Midland Mountain Hill Mulberry Grove Pine Mountain Rehobeth Ridgeway Shiloh Upatoi Waverly Hall West Point Whitesville

Cities in Alabama	Beauregard Bee Hive Beulah Cusseta Fort Mitchell Glenville Gold Hill Holy Trinity Hurtsboro Ladonia LaFayette Lanett Loachapoka Marvyn Notasulga Opelika Phenix City Roxana Salem Seale Smiths Station The Bottle Valley Waverly

Counties in Georgia	Chattahoochee Harris Marion Muscogee

Counties in Alabama	Chambers Lee Russell

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