Claibourne is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Claibourne Township, Union County,

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, United States. It is located at the intersection of Claibourne Road and Bethlehem-Claibourn Road.

History

Claibourne was

plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...

ted in 1881 when the railroad was extended to that point. A post office was established at Claibourne in 1879, and remained in operation until 1947.

References

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