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Welcome to Lick Creek ...So far, we found very little information about Lick Creek. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Lick Creek to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Lick Creek, please Contact Us. Lick Creek would have been located within present day Hickman County<2>. The location of Lick Creek has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Lick Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1834. A typical abbreviation for Lick Creek: Lick Crk. (or less commonly used: Lick Ck. or Lick Cr.) While the community is gone, the present day location for Lick Creek is 580 feet [177 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Lick Creek was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Communities Also Named Lick Creek ...While we believe that this Lick Creek is located in Hickman County, we know of another 2 Tennessee communities named Lick Creek. Those communities are located in the following counties: Benton and Decatur County. Beyond Tennessee, there are 7 communities that are also named Lick Creek - they are located in Illinois, Kentucky (2) and West Virginia (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Lick Creek. Communities near Lick Creek ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Lick Creek.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Lick Creek. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Lick Creek. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Lick Creek. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lick Creek. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Lick Creek. See our Newspapers Page for Lick Creek. Adding Lick Creek to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Lick 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 Lick Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Lick Creek in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846). For more details, see References and Mentions for Lick Creek. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Hickman County: www.hickmanco.com/ The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/ Footnotes ...
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