Do you know of Deep Creek ???

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

We found mention of Deep Creek as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Clay County, Kansas.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1870 and closed in 1876.

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 Deep Creek ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Deep Creek.

Within Kansas, the name Deep Creek is unique.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Deep Creek.
- Colorado
  - San Miguel 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 Colorado community of Deep Creek [San Miguel County].
- Florida
  - Charlotte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Deep Creek [Charlotte County].
  - Columbia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Deep Creek [Columbia County].
- Idaho
  - Boundary County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Deep Creek [Boundary County].
  - Twin Falls County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Deep Creek [Twin Falls County].
- Kentucky
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Deep Creek [Mercer County].
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel 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 Maryland community of Deep Creek [Anne Arundel County].
- Mississippi
  - Perry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Deep Creek [Perry County].
- Montana
  - Broadwater County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Deep Creek [Broadwater County].
- Nevada
  - Elko County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Deep Creek [Elko County].
- North Carolina
  - Anson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Deep Creek [Anson County].
- Oregon
  - Clackamas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Deep Creek [Clackamas County].
- Tennessee
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Deep Creek [Knox County].
- Virginia
  - Accomack County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Deep Creek [Accomack County].
  - Chesapeake City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Deep Creek [Chesapeake City].
  - Newport News City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Deep Creek [Newport News City].
  - Norfolk City
  - 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 Virginia community of Deep Creek [Norfolk City].
- Washington
  - Spokane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Deep Creek [Spokane County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Deep Creek ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in Clay 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 Clay County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Deep 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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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/