Do you know of Brown Creek ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Brown 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 Brown Creek.<1>

We found mention of Brown Creek as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Winston County, Alabama.

Communities Also Named Brown Creek ...

We found three communities that share the name Brown Creek.

Within Alabama, the name Brown Creek is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- North Carolina
  - Union County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Brown Creek [Union County].
- South Carolina
  - Marion County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Brown Creek [Marion County].
- West Virginia
  - Brown Creek #
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Brown Creek.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brown Creek ...

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

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

More Orphans in Winston 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 Winston County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Brown 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.