Do you know of Dry Creek ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dry 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 Dry Creek.
Our sources for Dry 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 Dry Creek other than they indicate that Dry Creek would be found somewhere in Covington County, Mississippi.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1841 and closed in 1908.
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.
Communities Also Named Dry Creek ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Dry Creek.
There is one other community in Mississippi which is also named Dry Creek.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Mississippi ...
- Tippah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Dry Creek [Tippah County].
- Tippah County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Dry Creek.
- Arkansas
- Searcy County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Dry Creek [Searcy County].
- California
- Idaho
- Kansas
- Cherokee County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Dry Creek [Cherokee County].
- Saline County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Dry Creek [Saline County].
- Sedgwick County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Dry Creek [Sedgwick County].
- Washington County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Dry Creek [Washington County].
- Kentucky
- Knott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Dry Creek [Knott County].
- Louisiana
- Beauregard Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Dry Creek [Beauregard Parish].
- Calcasieu Parish
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Dry Creek [Calcasieu Parish].
- Missouri
- Crawford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Dry Creek [Crawford County].
- Nevada
- Elko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Dry Creek [Elko County].
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Dry Creek [Cherokee County].
- Oregon
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Dry Creek [Benton County].
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Carter County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Dry Creek [Carter County].
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Dry Creek [Washington County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Dry Creek [Salt Lake County].
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Raleigh County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Dry Creek [Raleigh County].
- Wyoming
- Park County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Dry Creek [Park County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dry Creek ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dry Creek:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Dry Creek.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 28/20100 (Place Name: Dry Creek)
County: Covington (FIPS State/County: 28/031)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Dry Creek) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Covington 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 Covington County.
| Gilmer | Speed |
| Mount Carmel | Thames |
| Oakohay | Vex |
| Pickering | Welch |
| Wilkesburgh | |
| Reddoch | |
| Yawn | |
| Santee | |
| Sitka | Zion Seminary |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Dry Creek could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |