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Do you know of Trail Creek ???

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

We found mention of Trail Creek as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Harrison 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 1855 and closed  in 1864.

Communities Also Named Trail Creek ...

We found two communities that share the name Trail Creek.

Within Missouri, the name Trail Creek is unique.

Beyond Missouri, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Douglas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Trail Creek [Douglas County].
    • Indiana
      • LaPorte County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Trail Creek [LaPorte County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Trail Creek ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Harrison 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 Harrison County.

Bowman 
Burr OakLots
  
CheneyvilleMorris Ridge
  
EagleSampson Creek
  
Happy ValleyTaggart
 Thomas
Jay 

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/