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Do you know of Spencer Creek ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1869 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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Spencer Creek ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Spencer 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 Spencer Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Antrim 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 Antrim County.

Antrim CityJordan River
  
BaconKelley
BarnardsKentucky
Bay ViewKnipers
Blosser 
Blue Lake JunctionLake Forest
BrennanLake Harold
BrickervilleLiken
 Lull
Cameron 
CascadeMadden
ChurchillMaple Slope
ComfortMarble
 Millers Park
DanfordMitchell
DennisMorrison
DingmansMount Bliss
Dix 
DowNichols
 Norfolk
Eaton 
EchoOrville
Edwards 
EricoParks
EssexPine Ridge
  
FarmdaleRichardi
Fishermans ParadiseRootville
Fork 
FountainShepards
FurnaceSimon's
 South Milton
GilletsStaffords
Goo 
Grass RiverThelma
Graves CampTindall
 Torch Lake Village
Harper 
HartsWards
HelenaWay
HemstreetWebb
HitchcockWebster
Horgan JunctionWells Branch
HorganWells
 White Siding
Indian LandingWindling
 Wolcott
Johnson 

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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