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Welcome to Mountain Creek ...So far, we found very little information about Mountain Creek. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Mountain Creek to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Mountain Creek, please Contact Us. Mountain Creek would have been located within present day Rankin County<2>. The location of Mountain Creek has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Mountain Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1877. A typical abbreviation for Mountain Creek: Mtn. Creek While the community is gone, the present day location for Mountain Creek is 320 feet [98 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Mountain Creek was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Mountain Creek would have been located in the (601) & (769)<5> area codes. Websites for Mountain Creek ...Chamber of Commerce: www.rankinchamber.com/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Mountain Creek, the following might be of interest: Communities Also Named Mountain Creek ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 6 communities that are also named Mountain Creek - they are located in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Mountain Creek. Communities near Mountain Creek ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Mountain Creek.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Mountain Creek. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Mountain Creek. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Mountain Creek. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Mountain Creek. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Mountain Creek. See our Newspapers Page for Mountain Creek. Adding Mountain Creek to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Mountain Creek in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Mountain Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> For more details, see References and Mentions for Mountain Creek. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Rankin County: www.rankincounty.org/ The official website for State of Mississippi: https://www.ms.gov/ Footnotes ...
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