Do you know of Cypress Creek ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cypress 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 Cypress Creek.
Our sources for Cypress 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 Cypress Creek other than they indicate that Cypress Creek would be found somewhere in Johnson County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1851 and closed in 1892.
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 Cypress Creek ...
We found eleven communities that share the name Cypress Creek.
Within Illinois, the name Cypress Creek is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lauderdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cypress Creek [Lauderdale County].
- Florida
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Cypress Creek [Hamilton County].
- Louisiana
- Evangeline Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Cypress Creek [Evangeline Parish].
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Cypress Creek [Anne Arundel County].
- North Carolina
- Bladen 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 Cypress Creek [Bladen County].
- Columbus County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cypress Creek [Columbus County].
- Duplin County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cypress Creek [Duplin County].
- South Carolina
- Horry County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Cypress Creek [Horry County].
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Cypress Creek [Spartanburg County].
- Tennessee
- Henry 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 Tennessee community of Cypress Creek [Henry County].
- Texas
- Kerr County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cypress Creek [Kerr County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cypress Creek ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cypress Creek:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Cypress Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Rand McNally Map (1881)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Johnson 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 Johnson County.
| Boles | |
| Rago | |
| Cedar Bluffs | Regent |
| Chasco | |
| Collinsburg | Sanborn |
| Gannatown | Vienna Junction |
| Grantsburgh Station | |
| Whitehill | |
| Lincoln Green |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Cypress 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |