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Welcome to Rice Creek ...

Rice Creek is located in Calhoun County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Rice Creek, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1841.

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

Rice Creek is 980 feet [299 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Rice Creek lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Rice Creek: 269

Communities Also Named Rice Creek ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Rice Creek - it's located in Florida.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Rice Creek.

Communities near Rice Creek ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Rice 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 Rice Creek. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Rice Creek.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Rice 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 Rice Creek.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Rice Creek. See our Newspapers Page for Rice Creek.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Rice Creek ...

Looking for more information about Rice Creek? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Rice Creek, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Rice Creek.

Adding Rice Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Rice Creek in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Rice Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Rice Creek post office opened in 1841.

We also found Rice Creek in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

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

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Michigan's counties, including Calhoun, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Rice Creek - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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