Do you know of Stony Creek ???

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

Our sources for Stony 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 Stony Creek other than they indicate that Stony Creek would be found somewhere in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1836 and closed in 1907.

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 Stony Creek ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Stony Creek.

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

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

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- 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 Pennsylvania community of Stony Creek [Carbon County].
- Schuylkill County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Stony Creek [Schuylkill County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
  - New Haven County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Stony Creek [New Haven County].
- Indiana
  - LaGrange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Stony Creek [LaGrange County].
- Michigan
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Stony Creek [Monroe County].
  - Oakland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Stony Creek [Oakland County].
  - Washtenaw County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Stony Creek [Washtenaw County].
- New York
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Stony Creek [Warren County].
- North Carolina
  - Caswell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Stony Creek [Caswell County].
- Tennessee
  - Carter 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 Tennessee community of Stony Creek [Carter County].
- Virginia
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Stony Creek [Sussex County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Stony Creek ...

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

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

More Orphans in Somerset 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 Somerset 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 Stony 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/