Do you know of Sugar Creek ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sugar 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 Sugar Creek.
Our sources for Sugar 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 Sugar Creek other than they indicate that Sugar Creek would be found somewhere in Gallatin County, Kentucky.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1858 and closed in 1891.
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 Sugar Creek ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Sugar Creek.
Within Kentucky, the name Sugar Creek is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Sugar Creek [Blount County].
- Mobile County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Sugar Creek [Mobile County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sugar Creek [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sugar Creek [Douglas County].
- Fannin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sugar Creek [Fannin County].
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sugar Creek [Morgan County].
- Illinois
- 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 Illinois community of Sugar Creek [Jackson County].
- Wabash County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Sugar Creek [Wabash County].
- Indiana
- Lake 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 Indiana community of Sugar Creek [Lake County].
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Sugar Creek [Shelby County].
- Iowa
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Sugar Creek [Lee County].
- Louisiana
- Claiborne Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Sugar Creek [Claiborne Parish].
- Missouri
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Sugar Creek [Jackson County].
- Stoddard 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 Missouri community of Sugar Creek [Stoddard County].
- North Carolina
- Mecklenburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sugar Creek [Mecklenburg County].
- Ohio
- Athens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sugar Creek [Athens County].
- Trumbull County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sugar Creek [Trumbull County].
- Oklahoma
- Le Flore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Sugar Creek [Le Flore County].
- South Carolina
- Greenville County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Sugar Creek [Greenville County].
- Tennessee
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sugar Creek [Jackson County].
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sugar Creek [Johnson County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sugar Creek ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sugar 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 Sugar Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Gallatin 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 Gallatin County.
| Bramlette | Longview Beach |
| Brashear | |
| Sparta Station | |
| Gex | Sugar Bay |
| Sugar | |
| Jackson Landing | |
| Walnut Lick |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Sugar 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |