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Welcome to Piney Creek ...So far, we found very little information about Piney Creek. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Piney Creek to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Piney Creek, please Contact Us. Piney Creek would have been located within present day Carroll County<2>. The location of Piney Creek has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Piney Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1838. A typical abbreviation for Piney Creek: Piney Crk. (or less commonly used: Piney Ck. or Piney Cr.) While the community is gone, the present day location for Piney Creek is 500 feet [152 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Piney Creek was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time The location where Piney Creek once stood is in the (410) area code. Websites for Piney Creek ...Chamber of Commerce: www.carrollcountychamber.org/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Piney Creek, the following might be of interest: Communities Also Named Piney Creek ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Maryland communities named Piney Creek: This one is located in Carroll County and the other is located in Baltimore County. Beyond Maryland, there are 4 communities that are also named Piney Creek - they are located in Colorado, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Piney Creek. Communities near Piney Creek ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Piney 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 Piney Creek. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Piney Creek. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Piney 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 Piney Creek. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Piney Creek. See our Newspapers Page for Piney Creek. Adding Piney Creek to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Piney Creek in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Piney Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Piney Creek in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846). For more details, see References and Mentions for Piney Creek. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Carroll County: www.ccgov.carr.org/ The official website for State of Maryland: www.maryland.gov/ Footnotes ...
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