Do you know of Pine Creek ???

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

Our sources for Pine 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 Pine Creek other than they indicate that Pine Creek would be found somewhere in Butte County, California.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1865 and closed in 1871.

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 Pine Creek ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Pine Creek.

Within California, the name Pine Creek is unique.

Beyond California, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
  - Chaffee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Pine Creek [Chaffee County].
- Georgia
  - Cobb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Pine Creek [Cobb County].
- Idaho
  - Shoshone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Pine Creek [Shoshone County].
- Illinois
  - Ogle 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 Illinois community of Pine Creek [Ogle County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Pine Creek.
- Michigan
  - Calhoun County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Pine Creek [Calhoun County].
  - Ottawa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Pine Creek [Ottawa County].
- Minnesota
  - Houston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Pine Creek [Houston County].
- Missouri
  - Laclede 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 Missouri community of Pine Creek [Laclede County].
- Montana
  - Park County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Pine Creek [Park County].
- Nevada
  - Nye County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Pine Creek [Nye County].
- New York
  - Schuyler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Pine Creek [Schuyler County].
- Oregon
  - Baker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Pine Creek [Baker County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Allegheny 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 Pine Creek [Allegheny County].
- South Carolina
  - Kershaw County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Pine Creek [Kershaw County].
- Tennessee
  - Van Buren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Pine Creek [Van Buren County].
- Texas
  - Bandera 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 Texas community of Pine Creek [Bandera County].
- Virginia
  - Carroll 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 Virginia community of Pine Creek [Carroll County].
- West Virginia
  - Logan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Pine Creek [Logan County].
- Wisconsin
  - Trempealeau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Pine Creek [Trempealeau County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pine Creek ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

Shell Oil Road Map for California (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

More Orphans in Butte 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 Butte 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 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 Pine 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/