Do you know of Locust Creek ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Locust 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 Locust Creek.<1>
We found mention of Locust Creek as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Linn County, Missouri.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1838 and closed in 1840.
Communities Also Named Locust Creek ...
We found one communities that share the name Locust Creek.
Within Missouri, the name Locust Creek is unique.
Beyond Missouri, there is another community also named Locust Creek in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Virginia
- Louisa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Locust Creek [Louisa County].
- Virginia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Locust Creek ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Locust Creek:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
More Orphans in Linn 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 Linn County.
| Boomer | |
| Bottsville | Rodney |
| Branchville | |
| Sebago | |
| Needles | Sill |
| Northcutt |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |