Do you know of Turkey Creek ???

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

We found mention of Turkey Creek as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Dooly County, Georgia.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1869 and closed in 1889.

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 Turkey Creek ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Turkey Creek.

Within Georgia, the name Turkey Creek is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Stone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Turkey Creek [Stone County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Turkey Creek [Hillsborough County].
- Indiana
  - Steuben County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Turkey Creek [Steuben County].
- Kansas
  - Doniphan 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 Turkey Creek [Doniphan County].
  - McPherson County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Turkey Creek [McPherson County].
  - Wallace County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Turkey Creek [Wallace County].
- Kentucky
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Turkey Creek [Knox County].
  - Letcher County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Turkey Creek [Letcher County].
  - Pike County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Turkey Creek [Pike County].
- Louisiana
  - Evangeline Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Turkey Creek [Evangeline Parish].
- Mississippi
  - Yalobusha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Turkey Creek [Yalobusha County].
- Tennessee
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Turkey Creek [Clay County].
  - Moore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Turkey Creek [Moore County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Turkey Creek ...

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

More Orphans in Dooly 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 Dooly 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Turkey 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/