Welcome to Coal Creek ...

While we don't have a date for the founding of Coal Creek, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1936.

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

Coal Creek is 980 feet [299 m] above sea level.<1>.

Time Zone: Coal Creek lies in the Alaskan Time Zone (AKST/AKDT) and observes daylight saving time

Coal Creek lies within the (907) area code.

Communities Also Named Coal Creek ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 12 communities that are also named Coal Creek - they are located in British Columbia, Colorado (2), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (2), Montana, New Brunswick, Oklahoma and Washington (2).

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Coal Creek.

Adding Coal Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Coal Creek in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Coal Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Coal Creek post office opened in 1936.

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Coal Creek. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Alaska: alaska.gov/