Welcome to Greens Creek ...

Although we found mention of Greens Creek during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Greens Creek was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Greens Creek, you might get a feel for it by knowing that during our research the earliest mention that we found (so far) was on a map dated 1897.

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

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Greens Creek for more information about variations on the name of Greens Creek.

Time Zone: The area where we believe that Greens Creek might be (or was) located is in the Atlantic Time Zone (AST/ADT) and observes daylight saving time. The time zone in French: AST- Heure Normale de l'Atlantique (HNA), ADT- Heure Avancée de l'Atlantique (HAA).

We believe that Greens Creek would be found within the (902) area code.

Communities Also Named Greens Creek ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 3 communities that are also named Greens Creek - they are located in North Carolina, Nova Scotia and Texas.

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

Adding Greens Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Greens Creek was on a map titled Map of Maritime Provinces of Canada (from Rand McNally, 1897).

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Province of Nova Scotia: https://novascotia.ca

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. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Greens Creek and then turned east". While Greens Creek could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Greens Creek as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Greens 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 . 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.