Do you know of Lost Creek ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1873 and closed  in 1877.

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 Lost Creek ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Lost Creek.

Within Kansas, the name Lost Creek is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Breathitt County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lost Creek [Breathitt County].
    • Lawrence County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lost Creek [Lawrence County].
    • Morgan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lost Creek [Morgan County].
  • Montana
    • Deer Lodge County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Lost Creek [Deer Lodge County].
    • McCone County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Lost Creek [McCone County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Schuylkill County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lost Creek [Schuylkill County].
  • South Carolina
    • Richland County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lost Creek [Richland County].
  • Tennessee
    • Union County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Lost Creek [Union County].
    • White County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Lost Creek [White County].
  • Texas
    • Travis County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lost Creek [Travis County].
  • Washington
    • Pend Oreille County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Lost Creek [Pend Oreille County].
  • West Virginia
    • Harrison County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Lost Creek [Harrison County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lost Creek ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lost Creek:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

More Orphans in  Linn 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 Linn County.