Do you know of Hurricane Creek ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hurricane 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 Hurricane Creek.
Our sources for Hurricane 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 Hurricane Creek other than they indicate that Hurricane Creek would be found somewhere in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.
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 Hurricane Creek ...
We found two communities that share the name Hurricane Creek.
There are two communities within Mississippi that are also named Hurricane Creek.
Beyond Mississippi.
- Communities Located In Mississippi ...
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hurricane Creek [Clarke County].
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hurricane Creek [Marion County].
- Clarke County
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hurricane Creek ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hurricane Creek:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Hurricane Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
The FIPS database contains an entry for Hurricane Creek.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 28/34420 (Place Name: Hurricane Creek)
County: Lauderdale (FIPS State/County: 28/075)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Hurricane 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 Lauderdale County ...
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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 Lauderdale County.