Do you know of Beaver Creek ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Beaver 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 Beaver Creek.

Our sources for Beaver 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 Beaver Creek other than they indicate that Beaver Creek would be found somewhere in Dale County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1850 and closed in 1895.

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.

Communities Also Named Beaver Creek ...

We found 29 communities that share the name Beaver Creek.

Within Alabama, the name Beaver Creek is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 29 communities, 25 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Beaver Creek.
- Colorado
  - Eagle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Beaver Creek [Eagle County].
  - Fremont County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Beaver Creek [Fremont County].
- Florida
  - Okaloosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Beaver Creek [Okaloosa County].
- Georgia
  - Fulton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Beaver Creek [Fulton County].
  - Houston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Beaver Creek [Houston County].
  - Newton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Beaver Creek [Newton County].
- Illinois
  - Bond County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Beaver Creek [Bond County].
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Beaver Creek [Lake County].
- Kansas
  - Cloud County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Beaver Creek [Cloud County].
  - Lincoln County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Beaver Creek [Lincoln County].
- Kentucky
  - Pike County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Beaver Creek [Pike County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Beaver Creek.
- Maryland
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Beaver Creek [Washington County].
- Minnesota
  - Rock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Beaver Creek [Rock County].
- Mississippi
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Beaver Creek [Madison County].
- Montana
  - Fergus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Beaver Creek [Fergus County].
  - Hill County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Beaver Creek [Hill County].
  - Lewis and Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Beaver Creek [Lewis and Clark County].
- North Carolina
  - Ashe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Beaver Creek [Ashe County].
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Beaver Creek [Cumberland County].
- North Dakota
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Beaver Creek [Mercer County].
- Ohio
  - Henry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Beaver Creek [Henry County].
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Beaver Creek.
- South Carolina
  - Anderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Beaver Creek [Anderson County].
  - Kershaw County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Beaver Creek [Kershaw County].
- Wisconsin
  - Jackson County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Beaver Creek [Jackson County].
- Wyoming
  - Teton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Beaver Creek [Teton County].
- Yukon
  - Please visit our profile page for the Yukon community of Beaver Creek.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Beaver Creek ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in Dale 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 Dale County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Beaver Creek could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

<2>

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

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