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>

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

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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1872 and closed in 1876.

Communities Also Named Crooked Creek ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Crooked Creek.

There are two communities within Kansas that are also named Crooked Creek.

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

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Ford County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> 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.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Crooked Creek [Jefferson County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Cullman County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> 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.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Crooked Creek [Steuben 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.<3> 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.<4>

More Orphans in McPherson 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 McPherson County.

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>	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.
<3>	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.
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/