Do you know of Sinking Creek ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1828 and closed  in 1830.

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 Sinking Creek ...

We found two communities that share the name Sinking Creek.

Within Kentucky, the name Sinking Creek is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Tennessee
    • Carter County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sinking Creek [Carter County].
  • Virginia
    • Craig County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Sinking Creek [Craig County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sinking Creek ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Warren County ...

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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 Warren County.