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Do you know of Blue Creek ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Blue 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 Blue Creek. Our sources for Blue 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 Blue Creek other than they indicate that Blue Creek would be found somewhere in Franklin County, Indiana. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1849 and closed in 1904. 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 Blue Creek ...We found nine communities that share the name Blue Creek. Within Indiana, the name Blue Creek is unique. Beyond Indiana, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blue Creek ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Blue 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)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Blue Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher) The FIPS database contains an entry for Blue Creek. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 18/05932 (Place Name: Blue Creek) County: Franklin (FIPS State/County: 18/047) Class: U8 Identifies a populated place (in this case, Blue 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 Franklin 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 Franklin County.
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