Welcome to East Creek ...

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

We've added East Creek to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of East Creek - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with East Creek, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of East Creek , we believe that it would have been located within present day Cape May County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of East Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1842.

A typical abbreviation for East Creek: E. Creek

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

The Area Codes where East Creek was located: 609 & 640<3>

Communities Also Named East Creek ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named East Creek - it's located in New York.

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

Websites for East Creek ...

Chamber of Commerce: www.capemaycountychamber.com/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to East Creek, the following might be of interest:

Adding East Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of East 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 East Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the East Creek post office opened in 1842.

We also found East Creek in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

For more details, see References and Mentions for East 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 East Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of New Jersey's counties, including Cape May, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	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 609 code has been Overlayed with the 640 area code. New phone numbers in the East Creek area will be assigned with one of these codes: 609 or 640. As a result, placing a call in the East Creek area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/