Do you know of Elk Creek ???

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

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

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.

Communities Also Named Elk Creek ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Elk Creek.

Within Colorado, the name Elk Creek is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Glenn County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Elk Creek [Glenn County].
- Idaho
  - Shoshone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Elk Creek [Shoshone County].
- Iowa
  - Worth 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 Iowa community of Elk Creek [Worth County].
- Kansas
  - Osage County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Elk Creek [Osage County].
  - Republic 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 Kansas community of Elk Creek [Republic County].
- Kentucky
  - Spencer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Elk Creek [Spencer County].
- Missouri
  - Texas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Elk Creek [Texas County].
- Nebraska
  - Johnson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Elk Creek [Johnson County].
- New York
  - Otsego County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Elk Creek [Otsego County].
- North Carolina
  - Alleghany 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 North Carolina community of Elk Creek [Alleghany County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Erie 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 Elk Creek [Erie County].
- South Dakota
  - Lawrence 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 South Dakota community of Elk Creek [Lawrence County].
- Virginia
  - Grayson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Elk Creek [Grayson County].
- Washington
  - Pacific County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Elk Creek [Pacific County].
- Wisconsin
  - Trempealeau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Elk Creek [Trempealeau County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Elk Creek ...

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Colorado & Utah
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 1995
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in Jefferson 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 Jefferson 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 Elk 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.