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Welcome to Clear Creek ...

So far, we found very little information about Clear Creek. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Clear Creek to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Clear Creek, please Contact Us.

Clear Creek would have been located within present day Mecklenburg County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Clear Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1833.

A typical abbreviation for Clear Creek: Clear Crk. (or less commonly used: Clear Ck. or Clear Cr.)

While the community is gone, the present day location for Clear Creek is 590 feet [180 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Clear Creek was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Clear Creek was located: 704 & 980<4>

Communities Also Named Clear Creek ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two North Carolina communities named Clear Creek: This one is located in Mecklenburg County and the other is located in Cabarrus County.

Beyond North Carolina, there are 34 communities that are also named Clear Creek - they are located in Alabama, Arizona, California (3), Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana (2), Kansas (4), Kentucky (2), Missouri (2), Nevada, New York, Ohio (2), Ontario, Oregon, Texas (3), Utah (3), Virginia, West Virginia and Yukon.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Clear Creek.

Communities near Clear Creek ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Clear Creek.

  • Charlotte
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Concord
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Kannapolis
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Indian Trail
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Monroe
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Matthews
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Mint Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Harrisburg
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Stallings
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Weddington
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)

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 Clear Creek. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Clear Creek.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Clear 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 Clear Creek.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Clear Creek. See our Newspapers Page for Clear Creek.

Adding Clear Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Clear 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 (so far) for Clear Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Clear Creek post office opened in 1833. The Clear Creek post office closed in 1875.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Clear Creek.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Clear Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of North Carolina's counties, including Mecklenburg, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Clear Creek - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 704 code has been Overlayed with the 980 area code. New phone numbers in the Clear Creek area will be assigned with one of these codes: 704 or 980. As a result, placing a call in the Clear Creek area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/