Do you know of Goose Creek ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Goose Creek. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Goose Creek.

We found mention of Goose Creek as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Queens County, New York.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Communities Also Named Goose Creek ...

We found six communities that share the name Goose Creek.

Within New York, the name Goose Creek is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kentucky
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Goose Creek [Jefferson County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Goose Creek.
- Nebraska
  - Cherry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Goose Creek [Cherry County].
- North Carolina
  - Camden County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Goose Creek [Camden County].
- South Carolina
  - Berkeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Goose Creek [Berkeley County].
- West Virginia
  - Ritchie County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Goose Creek [Ritchie County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Goose Creek ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Goose Creek:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Goose Creek - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in Queens County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Queens County.

Albertson's	Lawrence Station
Aqueduct	Lawrence
Arverne-by-the-Sea	Locust Valley
Atlantic Park	Long Beach
Auburndale
	Manhassett
Baldwin	Maple Grove
Barnum's Island	Massapequa
Bay Terrace	Merrick
Bayville Station	Mineola
Bayville
Beach Channel	New Hyde Park
Bellmore	Newtown
Bethpage	Nichols Siding
Borough Hall
Broadway	Ocean Point
	Oceanus
Central Park	Old Westbury
Cold Spring	Oyster Bay
Corona - Elmhurst
Corona Park	Pearsall's
Creedmoor	Penny Bridge
	Plainview
Dunta	Plaza
	Point Lookout
East Norwich	Pomonok
East Rockaway	Port Washington
East Williston
Elmont	Queensbridge
Evergreen
	The Raunt
Farmingdale	Ravenswood
Floral Park	Ravenswood
Forest Park	Rockaway Beach
Fort Totten	Rockville Centre
Foster's Meadow	Roslyn
Freeport
Fremont	Sea Cliff Station
	Sea Cliff
Garden City	Seaford
Glen Cove	South Richmond Hill
Glen Head	Springfield
Glendale Junction	Syosset
Glendale Station
	Thomaston
Hall	Trainsmeadow
Hempstead
Hewlett's	Valley Stream
Hicksville
Hollis Court	Wantagh
Holliswood	Westbury Station
Horace Harding	Whitestone Landing
Hyde Park	Willetts Point
	Winfield
Inwood	Wood Haven
	Woodbury
Jericho	Woodhaven Junction
	Woodsburgh
Laurel Hill	Woolsey

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 as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

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 Goose 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 county. 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.