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Welcome to Flower Creek ...

So far, we found very little information about Flower Creek. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Flower Creek to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Flower Creek - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Flower Creek, please Contact Us.


While we don't have the exact location of Flower Creek , we believe that it would have been located within present day Oceana County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Flower Creek, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1863.

A typical abbreviation for Flower Creek: Flower Crk. (or less commonly used: Flower Ck. or Flower Cr.)

Time Zone: The area where Flower Creek was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Code where Flower Creek was located: 231

Adding Flower Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Flower Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Flower Creek post office opened in 1863.

We also found Flower Creek in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Flower Creek.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Flower Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Michigan's counties, including Oceana, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/