Do you know of Cabin Creek ???

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

Our sources for Cabin Creek (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Cabin Creek other than they indicate that Cabin Creek would be found somewhere in Dorchester County, Maryland.

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 Cabin Creek ...

We found six communities that share the name Cabin Creek.

Within Maryland, the name Cabin Creek is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Johnson 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 Arkansas community of Cabin Creek [Johnson County].
- Colorado
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Cabin Creek [Adams County].
- Montana
  - Fallon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Cabin Creek [Fallon County].
- Oregon
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Cabin Creek [Union County].
- Washington
  - Kittitas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Cabin Creek [Kittitas County].
- West Virginia
  - Kanawha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Cabin Creek [Kanawha County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cabin Creek ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Cabin Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for Cabin Creek.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 24/12050 (Place Name: Cabin Creek)

County: Dorchester (FIPS State/County: 24/019)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Cabin Creek) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Dorchester 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 Dorchester County.

Aireys
	Old Field
Barren Creek
Big Mills	Parsons Creek

Cedar Grove Beach	Sharpton
	Shiloh
Drawbridge	Sugarloaf

Elwood	Tobacco Stick
Ennall's Station
	Wingates Point
Harrison

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 Cabin 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.