Do you know of Buck Creek ???

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

Our sources for Buck 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 Buck Creek other than they indicate that Buck Creek would be found somewhere in Owsley County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1876 and closed in 1925.

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 Buck Creek ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Buck Creek.

There is one other community in Kentucky which is also named Buck Creek.

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

Communities Located In Kentucky ...
- Estill County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Buck Creek [Estill County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Tallapoosa 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 Alabama community of Buck Creek [Tallapoosa County].
- Alberta
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Buck Creek.
- Georgia
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Buck Creek [Carroll County].
  - Newton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Buck Creek [Newton County].
  - Screven 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 Georgia community of Buck Creek [Screven County].
- Indiana
  - Tippecanoe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Buck Creek [Tippecanoe County].
- Iowa
  - Bremer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Buck Creek [Bremer County].
  - Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Buck Creek [Delaware County].
- Kansas
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Buck Creek [Jefferson County].
- Mississippi
  - Greene 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 Mississippi community of Buck Creek [Greene County].
- Missouri
  - Morgan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Buck Creek [Morgan County].
- Texas
  - Cottle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Buck Creek [Cottle County].
- Wisconsin
  - Richland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Buck Creek [Richland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Buck Creek ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Buck 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 Buck Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for Buck Creek.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 21/10522 (Place Name: Buck Creek)

County: Owsley (FIPS State/County: 21/189)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Buck 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 Owsley 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 Owsley County.

Cortland	Gabbard

Doorway	Joshua

Ernestville	Turin

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Buck 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/