Do you know of Gar Creek ???

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

Our sources for Gar 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 Gar Creek other than they indicate that Gar Creek would be found somewhere in Allen County, Indiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1873 and closed  in 1926.

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 Gar Creek ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Gar 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 Gar Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Gar Creek.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 18/26278   (Place Name: Gar Creek)

County: Allen     (FIPS State/County: 18/003)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Gar 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  Allen County ...

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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 Allen County.