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Welcome to Vine Creek ...

Vine Creek is located in Ottawa County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Vine Creek, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1879.

A typical abbreviation for Vine Creek: Vine Crk. (or less commonly used: Vine Ck. or Vine Cr.)

Vine Creek is 1,330 feet [405 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Vine Creek lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Vine Creek: 785

The community of Vine Creek was previously named Vine.

Communities near Vine Creek ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Vine Creek.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Vine Creek. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Vine Creek.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Vine Creek. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Vine Creek.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Vine Creek. See our Newspapers Page for Vine Creek.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Vine Creek ...

Looking for more information about Vine Creek? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Vine Creek, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Vine Creek.

Adding Vine Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Vine Creek in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Vine Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Vine Creek post office opened in 1879.

We also found Vine Creek on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Vine Creek.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Kansas' counties, including Ottawa, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Vine Creek - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/