Welcome to Dry Creek ...So far, we found very little information about Dry Creek. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Dry Creek to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Dry Creek, please Contact Us. Dry Creek would have been located within present day Elko County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Dry Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1874. A typical abbreviation for Dry Creek: Dry Crk. (or less commonly used: Dry Ck. or Dry Cr.) While the community is gone, the present day location for Dry Creek is 5,750 feet [1,753 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the altitude of Dry Creek is about 1 mile [or 1¾ km] above sea level. Time Zone: The area where Dry Creek was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time The Area Code where Dry Creek was located: 775 Communities Also Named Dry Creek ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 25 communities that are also named Dry Creek - they are located in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Kansas (4), Kentucky, Louisiana (2), Mississippi (2), Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee (2), Utah, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Dry Creek. Communities near Dry Creek ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Dry Creek.
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 Dry Creek. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Dry Creek. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Dry 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 Dry Creek. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Dry Creek. See our Newspapers Page for Dry Creek. Adding Dry Creek to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Dry 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 Dry Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Dry Creek. Footnotes ...
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