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Welcome to Cane Creek ...So far, we found very little information about Cane Creek. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Cane Creek to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Cane Creek, please Contact Us. Cane Creek would have been located within present day Calhoun County<2>. The location of Cane Creek has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Cane Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1839. A typical abbreviation for Cane Creek: Cane Crk. (or less commonly used: Cane Ck. or Cane Cr.) While the community is gone, the present day location for Cane Creek is 530 feet [162 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Cane Creek was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Cane Creek (for example, toward Tallapoosa (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). If Cane Creek still existed, it would have been in the (256) and (938)<5> area codes. Websites for Cane Creek ...Chamber of Commerce: www.calhounchamber.com/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Cane Creek, the following might be of interest: Communities Also Named Cane Creek ...While we believe that this Cane Creek is located in Calhoun County, we know of another 2 Alabama communities named Cane Creek. Those communities are located in the following counties: Bibb and Jefferson County. Beyond Alabama, there are 11 communities that are also named Cane Creek - they are located in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky (2), Missouri, North Carolina (2) and Tennessee (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Cane Creek. Communities near Cane Creek ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Cane Creek.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Cane Creek. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Cane Creek. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Cane Creek. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cane Creek. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Cane Creek. See our Newspapers Page for Cane Creek. Adding Cane Creek to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Cane Creek in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Cane Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Cane Creek in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Cane Creek. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Calhoun County: www.calhouncounty.org/ The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/ Footnotes ...
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