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Do you know of Wood Creek ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wood 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 Wood Creek.<1>

Our sources for Wood Creek (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Wood Creek other than they indicate that Wood Creek would be found somewhere in Oneida County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1827 and closed  in 1827.

Communities Also Named Wood Creek ...

We found three communities that share the name Wood Creek.

Within New York, the name Wood Creek is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Wood Creek [Jefferson County].
    • Maryland
      • Howard County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Wood Creek [Howard County].
    • Texas
      • Montgomery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wood Creek [Montgomery County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wood Creek ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

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

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

More Orphans in  Oneida 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 Oneida County.

Alder Creek StationKayuta Lake
 Kayuta
BairdsvilleKernan
Baretown 
ButterfieldLeila
  
CapronNew York Mills Gardens
Centerbury HillNewbernville
Chadwick's MillsNorth Steuben
Clark's Mills 
ColemansPlains
 Prospect Station
Deansville 
DunbartonRichfield Junction
DunhamRidgewood
 Ringdahl Court
East Florence 
East UticaSangerfield Centre
EnosSheldonville
 South Utica
Fish CreekStokes
Forestport StationSylvan
  
GlenhavenTaberg Station
Green's CornersTrenton Assembly Park
  
Harts HillWest Camden
HaseltonWest Utica
Herthum HeightsWest Vienna
HizervilleWhite Lake Corners
HoagvilleWhite Lake
Honnedaga LakeWhitestown
 Willow Vale

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Wood 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.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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