Do you know of Beech Creek ???

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

Our sources for Beech 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 Beech Creek other than they indicate that Beech Creek would be found somewhere in Ashley County, Arkansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1869 and closed in 1891.

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 Beech Creek ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Beech Creek.

There are two communities within Arkansas that are also named Beech Creek.

Beyond Arkansas, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Arkansas ...
- Columbia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Beech Creek [Columbia County].
- Dallas 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 Arkansas community of Beech Creek [Dallas County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Levy County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Beech Creek [Levy County].
- Kentucky
  - Muhlenberg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Beech Creek [Muhlenberg County].
- Maryland
  - Howard County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Beech Creek [Howard County].
- North Carolina
  - Avery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Beech Creek [Avery County].
  - Watauga 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 North Carolina community of Beech Creek [Watauga County].
- Oregon
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Beech Creek [Grant County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Beech Creek [Clinton County].
- West Virginia
  - Logan 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 West Virginia community of Beech Creek [Logan County].
  - Mingo 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 West Virginia community of Beech Creek [Mingo County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Beech Creek ...

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

William Bradley Map (1889)
Published by William M. Bradley and Brothers

The FIPS database contains an entry for Beech Creek.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 05/04660 (Place Name: Beech Creek)

County: Ashley (FIPS State/County: 05/003)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Beech Creek) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Ashley 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 Ashley County.

Bartholomew	North Rural Branch
	North
Cypress
	Petersburgh
Fountain Prairie	Pine Hill
	Point Pleasant
Long View
	Ripley
Morrell
Muller	Selah
	Slemons
Normandy

Footnotes ...

<1>

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Beech 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/