Do you know of Roaring Creek ???

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

Our sources for Roaring Creek (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Roaring Creek other than they indicate that Roaring Creek would be found somewhere in Columbia County, Pennsylvania.

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 Roaring Creek ...

We found four communities that share the name Roaring Creek.

There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Roaring Creek.

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

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Montour County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Roaring Creek [Montour County].
- Northumberland 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 Pennsylvania community of Roaring Creek [Northumberland County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- North Carolina
  - Avery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Roaring Creek [Avery County].
- West Virginia
  - Randolph 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 West Virginia community of Roaring Creek [Randolph County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Roaring Creek ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Roaring Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Roaring Creek.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 42/65232 (Place Name: Roaring Creek (Slabtown))

County: Columbia (FIPS State/County: 42/037)

Class: U6

Identifies a populated place (ie- Roaring Creek) that is wholly or substantially located outside the boundaries of any incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) that has an authoritative common name recognized by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Columbia 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 Columbia 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Roaring 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.