Do you know of Pike Creek ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pike 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 Pike Creek.<1>

We found mention of Pike Creek as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Ripley 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 1850 and closed in 1869.

Communities Also Named Pike Creek ...

We found two communities that share the name Pike Creek.

Within Missouri, the name Pike Creek is unique.

Beyond Missouri, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Delaware
  - New Castle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Pike Creek [New Castle County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Pike Creek.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pike Creek ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in Ripley 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 Ripley County.

Acorn
	Little Black
Barfield Station
Barfield	Martinsburgh
Briar Creek	Mill Creek

Celynda	Oakdale

Dry Springs	Pine

Fernnook	Varner

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/