Do you know of Salt Creek ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Salt 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 Salt Creek.
Our sources for Salt 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 Salt Creek other than they indicate that Salt Creek would be found somewhere in DuPage County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1874 and closed in 1895.
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 Salt Creek ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name Salt Creek.
Within Illinois, the name Salt Creek is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Shasta 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 California community of Salt Creek [Shasta County].
- Colorado
- Pueblo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Salt Creek [Pueblo County].
- Indiana
- Porter 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 Indiana community of Salt Creek [Porter County].
- Kansas
- Leavenworth 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 Salt Creek [Leavenworth County].
- Reno 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 Salt Creek [Reno County].
- Kentucky
- Perry 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 Kentucky community of Salt Creek [Perry County].
- Missouri
- Chariton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Salt Creek [Chariton County].
- Montana
- Fergus County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Salt Creek [Fergus County].
- Ohio
- Holmes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Salt Creek [Holmes County].
- Oregon
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Salt Creek [Polk County].
- South Carolina
- Beaufort County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Salt Creek [Beaufort County].
- Virginia
- Amherst County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Salt Creek [Amherst County].
- Wyoming
- Natrona County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Salt Creek [Natrona County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Salt Creek ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Salt 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 Salt Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
More Orphans in DuPage 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 DuPage County.
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 Salt 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/ |