Do you know of Crooked Creek ???

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

Our sources for Crooked 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 Crooked Creek other than they indicate that Crooked Creek would be found somewhere in Henry County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1843 and closed in 1851.

Communities Also Named Crooked Creek ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Crooked Creek.

Within Iowa, the name Crooked Creek is unique.

Beyond Iowa, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Cullman 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 Alabama community of Crooked Creek [Cullman County].
  - Lee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Crooked Creek [Lee County].
- Alaska
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Crooked Creek.
- Alberta
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Crooked Creek.
- Indiana
  - Steuben 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 Indiana community of Crooked Creek [Steuben County].
- Kansas
  - Ford 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 Kansas community of Crooked Creek [Ford County].
  - Jefferson 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 Crooked Creek [Jefferson 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 Crooked Creek [McPherson County].
- Kentucky
  - Estill County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Crooked Creek [Estill County].
  - Pike County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Crooked Creek [Pike County].
- Missouri
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Crooked Creek [Shelby County].
- North Carolina
  - Henderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Crooked Creek [Henderson County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Crooked Creek.
- Pennsylvania
  - Huntingdon 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 Pennsylvania community of Crooked Creek [Huntingdon County].
  - Tioga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Crooked Creek [Tioga County].
- Tennessee
  - Perry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Crooked Creek [Perry County].
- West Virginia
  - Logan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Crooked Creek [Logan County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Crooked Creek ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

Article: Index to Abandoned Towns of Iowa
Taken from The Annals of Iowa (Volume 18, Issue 3 - Winter 1932)
Written by: Mott, David C.

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in Henry 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 Henry County.

Beery
Boyleston	Marshall
	Mount Pleasant Junction
Cambridge
Cotton Grove	Rural

East Grove	Shockley

Ketcham's	Wayne
	Winona
La Hoyt

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	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 Crooked 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.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/