Do you know of Sugar Creek ???

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

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

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 1868 and closed in 1872.

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 Sugar Creek ...

We found 22 communities that share the name Sugar Creek.

There are two communities within Illinois that are also named Sugar Creek.

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

Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Jackson 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 Illinois community of Sugar Creek [Jackson County].
- Wabash 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 Illinois community of Sugar Creek [Wabash County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Blount County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Sugar Creek [Blount County].
  - Mobile County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Sugar Creek [Mobile County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sugar Creek [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sugar Creek [Douglas County].
  - Fannin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sugar Creek [Fannin County].
  - Morgan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sugar Creek [Morgan County].
- Indiana
  - Lake 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 Sugar Creek [Lake County].
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Sugar Creek [Shelby County].
- Iowa
  - Lee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Sugar Creek [Lee County].
- Kentucky
  - Gallatin 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 Sugar Creek [Gallatin County].
- Louisiana
  - Claiborne Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Sugar Creek [Claiborne Parish].
- Missouri
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Sugar Creek [Jackson County].
  - Stoddard 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 Missouri community of Sugar Creek [Stoddard County].
- North Carolina
  - Mecklenburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sugar Creek [Mecklenburg County].
- Ohio
  - Athens County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sugar Creek [Athens County].
  - Trumbull County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sugar Creek [Trumbull County].
- Oklahoma
  - Le Flore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Sugar Creek [Le Flore County].
- South Carolina
  - Greenville County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Sugar Creek [Greenville County].
- Tennessee
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sugar Creek [Jackson County].
  - Johnson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sugar Creek [Johnson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sugar Creek ...

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