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Do you know of Cow Creek ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Cow Creek, so we are uncertain whether Cow Creek is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Cow Creek would be found somewhere in Ellsworth County, Kansas.

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 Cow Creek ...

We found ten communities that share the name Cow Creek.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Cow Creek.

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

  • Communities Located In Kansas ...
    • Crawford 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 Cow Creek [Crawford County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Tuolumne County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cow Creek [Tuolumne County].
    • Florida
      • Volusia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Cow Creek [Volusia County].
    • Idaho
      • Clearwater County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Cow Creek [Clearwater County].
    • Kentucky
      • Estill County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cow Creek [Estill County].
    • Mississippi
      • Kemper County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Cow Creek [Kemper County].
    • Montana
      • Rosebud 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 Montana community of Cow Creek [Rosebud County].
    • Oregon
      • Douglas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Cow Creek [Douglas County].
    • Texas
      • Erath County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cow Creek [Erath County].
    • Wyoming
      • Carbon 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 Wyoming community of Cow Creek [Carbon County].

More Orphans in  Ellsworth 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 Ellsworth County.

Alliance 
Alma CreekLake Shore
Ash Creek 
AshmeadeMasmer
 Mount Zion
Ben's RanchMule Creek
Bluff Spring 
BluffvilleOxide
Bradley Springs 
Buffalo CreekPages Ranch
 Palacky
Cain CityPalmers Cave
Cedar BluffPhipps
ColumbiaPlum Creek
 Prosper
Delight 
DelilaRange
 Rock Spring
Ellsworth Junction 
Elm CreekSummit Siding
 Summit Springs
Farisville 
 Tatonka
Green GardenThomas
 Trivoli
Hole in the Wall 
HolyokeWilson Creek
 Winston
Janssen 
 Yordy
Keever 

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 Cow 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.









 

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