Do you know of Black Creek ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Black 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 Black Creek.

We found mention of Black Creek as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Wayne County, North Carolina.

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.

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 Black Creek ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Black Creek.

There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Black Creek.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and five are in Canada.

Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Wilson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Black Creek [Wilson County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Etowah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Black Creek [Etowah County].
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Black Creek [Jefferson County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Black Creek.
- Florida
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Black Creek [Clay County].
  - Leon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Black Creek [Leon County].
- Georgia
  - Screven 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 Georgia community of Black Creek [Screven County].
- Indiana
  - Harrison 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 Indiana community of Black Creek [Harrison County].
- Kentucky
  - Powell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Black Creek [Powell County].
- Louisiana
  - Grant Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Black Creek [Grant Parish].
- New York
  - Allegany County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Black Creek [Allegany County].
- Ohio
  - Holmes 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 Ohio community of Black Creek [Holmes County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Black Creek.
- South Carolina
  - Berkeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Black Creek [Berkeley County].
- Tennessee
  - Scott County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Black Creek [Scott County].
- Virginia
  - Southampton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Black Creek [Southampton County].
- Wisconsin
  - Outagamie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Black Creek [Outagamie County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Black Creek ...

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

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

More Orphans in Wayne 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 Wayne County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Black 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.