Do you know of Green Creek ???

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

Our sources for Green 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 Green Creek other than they indicate that Green Creek would be found somewhere in Muskegon County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1883 and closed  in 1892.

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 Green Creek ...

We found five communities that share the name Green Creek.

Within Michigan, the name Green Creek is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Illinois
    • Effingham County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Green Creek [Effingham County].
  • New Jersey
    • Cape May County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Green Creek [Cape May County].
  • North Carolina
    • Polk County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Green Creek [Polk County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Green Creek.
  • Ohio
    • Sandusky County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Green Creek [Sandusky County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Green Creek ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Muskegon 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 Muskegon County.