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Welcome to Drowning Creek ...

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

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

Drowning Creek would have been located within present day Burke County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Drowning Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1829.

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

While the community is gone, the present day location for Drowning Creek is 1,100 feet [335 m] above sea level.<3>.

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

The Area Code where Drowning Creek was located: 828

Communities Also Named Drowning Creek ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Drowning Creek - it's located in Tennessee.

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

Communities near Drowning Creek ...

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

  • Hickory
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Hickory is located in Catawba County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 41,473 people
  • Lenoir
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Lenoir is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lenoir
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 17,911 people
    • Former name for Lenoir:
    • Tucker's Barn
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lenoir <4>
  • Morganton
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Newton
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Conover
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Sawmills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Sawmills is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawmills
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,156 people
  • Long View
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Long View is located in Catawba County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long View
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,951 people
  • Granite Falls
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Valdese
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Gamewell
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Gamewell is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gamewell
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,993 people

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

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

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

Adding Drowning Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Drowning 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 Drowning Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Drowning Creek post office opened in 1829. The Drowning Creek post office closed in 1878.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Drowning 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 Drowning 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 Burke, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Drowning Creek - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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/