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Do you know of Anderson's Creek ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Anderson's Creek. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Anderson's Creek.

Our sources for Anderson's Creek (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Anderson's Creek other than they indicate that Anderson's Creek would be found somewhere in Lauderdale County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1861 and closed  in 1896.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Anderson's Creek ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Anderson's Creek:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Anderson's Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Lauderdale County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Lauderdale County.

Arthur 
 Kendale Gardens
Burcham Mills 
 Murphy
Centre Star 
CovingtonRawhide
 Regency
EastepReserve
Elting 
 Stylon
Frog Pond 
Furnace JunctionUnderwood - Petersville
  
HustontownWestmorelandville

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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