Welcome to Sand Creek ...

So far, we found very little information about Sand Creek. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Sand Creek to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Sand Creek - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Sand Creek, please Contact Us.

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While we don't have the exact location of Sand Creek , we believe that it would have been located within present day Delaware County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Sand Creek, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1862.

A typical abbreviation for Sand Creek: Sand Crk. (or less commonly used: Sand Ck. or Sand Cr.)

Time Zone: The area where Sand Creek was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Sand Creek ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 9 communities that are also named Sand Creek - they are located in Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sand Creek.

Adding Sand Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Sand Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Sand Creek post office opened in 1862.

We also found Sand Creek in the book titled Iowa State Gazetteer (1865).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Sand Creek.