Welcome to Symmes Creek ...

So far, we found very little information about Symmes Creek. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Symmes Creek to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Symmes Creek - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Symmes Creek, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Symmes Creek <3>, we believe that it would have been located within present day Muskingum County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Symmes Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1847.

A typical abbreviation for Symmes Creek: Symmes Crk. (or less commonly used: Symmes Ck. or Symmes Cr.)

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Symmes Creek for more information about variations on the name of Symmes Creek.

Time Zone: The area where Symmes Creek was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Symmes Creek would have been located in the (740) area code.

Adding Symmes Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Symmes Creek in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Symmes Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Symmes Creek post office opened in 1847.

We also found Symmes Creek in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Symmes Creek.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Ohio: https://ohio.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Symmes Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Ohio's counties, including Muskingum, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Symmes Creek may originally have been Symme's Creek. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Symmes Creek might be written as Symme Creek. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Symmes Creek.
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/