Places

Communities, landmarks and geographic features.

• Dr. Spurlin Circle (Berryville, Arkansas) · Places mixed
  Dr. Spurlin Circle is a street in Berryville, Arkansas. The city's Berryville Community Center stands there at 601 Dr. Spurlin Circle. The street honors a local Dr. Spurlin; a family of Spurlin dentists practised in Berryville from 1903, though no published source says which of them the street is named for. A later practice on North Main Street, Spurlin Family Dentistry, has been run by a dentist of another name.
• Howell-Spurlin Cemetery (Shelby, North Carolina) · Places weak
  Howell-Spurlin Cemetery is a small 19th-century family burial ground in Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina. Find a Grave records 16 memorials, among them John Howell (1744–1828) and five Spurlins who died between 1850 and 1890.
• Jimmy Spurlin Park (Tifton, Georgia) · Places mixed
  Jimmy Spurlin Park is a youth baseball field in Tifton, Georgia, named for James Kenneth "Jimmy" Spurlin Sr. (1935–2006), a Tifton city commissioner, Tift County Commission chairman and longtime youth coach. Tift County lists a Spurlin field in its D. L. Lastinger Recreation Area, and tournament organizers list it as Spurlin Field.
• Places named Spurlin · Places strong
  Overview of communities, landforms, streams, crossings, cemeteries and civic sites in the United States that carry the Spurlin (or closely related Spurling) name, with pointers to Spurlin historical markers and federal land records.
• Spurlin cemeteries · Places weak
  A roundup of burial grounds named for the Spurlin family on Find a Grave: eight Spurlin cemeteries in Arkansas, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky and North Carolina, plus Spurlington- and Spurling-named cemeteries and the graves of notable Spurlins.
• Spurlin Mesa, Colorado · Places strong
  Spurlin Mesa is a summit listed by GNIS in Delta County, Colorado, between the towns of Hotchkiss and Crawford. An irrigation ditch across it, the Spurlin Mesa Lateral of the Crawford Clipper Ditch, dates from the 1880s and has been evaluated as eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
• Spurlin, Texas · Places mixed
  Spurlin is a ghost town in northwestern Hamilton County, Texas. It was laid out on the Stephenville North and South Texas Railway in 1908–1909 and named for its promoter, the Hamilton merchant John L. Spurlin. It had a church and a business in 1936 and had disappeared from maps by the late 1980s.
• Spurling place names (related spelling) · Places strong
  Several U.S. places carry the closely related name Spurling rather than Spurlin: a populated place in Montana, a stream in Tennessee, and a cove, point and rock around Great Cranberry Island, Maine. Spurlington, Kentucky, is also named for a Spurling family, and Tasmania has a Mount Spurling named for a photographer's 1908 discovery.
• Spurlington Tunnel · Places strong
  The Spurlington Tunnel is an abandoned railroad tunnel of about 1,900 feet through Muldraugh Hill near Spurlington, Kentucky. It was dug in the late 1860s and 1870s for the Lebanon–Greensburg line, which the Louisville and Nashville Railroad later operated.
• Spurlington, Kentucky · Places mixed
  Spurlington is a small rural community in Taylor County, Kentucky, northeast of Campbellsville. It was a railroad station with a post office from 1880 to 1958, and it is named for the Spurling family, whose John Spurling Sr. was its first postmaster.
• Spurlins Ferry and Spurlin Cemetery (Garland County, Arkansas) · Places mixed
  Garland County, Arkansas, near Hot Springs, has two Spurlin-named sites: a historical river crossing that GNIS records as Spurlins Ferry, and Spurlin Cemetery on Papas Trail, a family burial ground with about 160 Find a Grave memorials whose earliest dated burial is from about 1890. A family tradition links the cemetery's Spurlins to a James Spurlin said to have been killed at Hot Springs in the 1840s.
• Spurlins Hollow and Spurlins Creek, Kentucky · Places strong
  Besides Spurlington, GNIS lists two Kentucky natural features named in the possessive form 'Spurlins': Spurlins Hollow, a valley in Cumberland County, and Spurlins Creek, a stream in Muhlenberg County recorded by the place-name scholar Robert M. Rennick.