Do you know of Otter Creek ???

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

Our sources for Otter 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 Otter Creek other than they indicate that Otter Creek would be found somewhere in Hardin County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1856 and closed in 1883.

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 Otter Creek ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Otter Creek.

Within Kentucky, the name Otter Creek is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Pulaski County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Otter Creek [Pulaski County].
- Florida
  - Levy County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Otter Creek [Levy County].
- Georgia
  - Pierce County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Otter Creek [Pierce County].
- Iowa
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Otter Creek [Jackson County].
- Kansas
  - Clay 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 Otter Creek [Clay County].
- Maine
  - Hancock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Otter Creek [Hancock County].
- Michigan
  - 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 Michigan community of Otter Creek [Jackson County].
- Minnesota
  - Carlton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Otter Creek [Carlton County].
- Missouri
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Otter Creek [Wayne County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Otter Creek.
- New York
  - Lewis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Otter Creek [Lewis County].
- North Carolina
  - Rutherford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Otter Creek [Rutherford County].
- North Dakota
  - Oliver County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Otter Creek [Oliver County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Otter Creek.
- Pennsylvania
  - Mercer 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 Pennsylvania community of Otter Creek [Mercer County].
- Tennessee
  - Cumberland 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 Tennessee community of Otter Creek [Cumberland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Otter Creek ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Otter 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 Otter Creek - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

George#&160;F. Cram Map (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

More Orphans in Hardin 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 Hardin 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Otter 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/