Do you know of Deer Creek ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Deer 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 Deer Creek.

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

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.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Deer Creek ...

We found 22 communities that share the name Deer Creek.

There is one other community in Ohio which is also named Deer Creek.

Beyond Ohio, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Ohio ...
- Trumbull County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Deer Creek [Trumbull County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Gila County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Deer Creek [Gila County].
  - Maricopa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Deer Creek [Maricopa County].
- Arkansas
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Deer Creek [Grant County].
- California
  - Tehama County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Deer Creek [Tehama County].
- Delaware
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Deer Creek [Sussex County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Deer Creek [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
  - Carroll 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 Georgia community of Deer Creek [Carroll County].
- Idaho
  - Clearwater 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 Idaho community of Deer Creek [Clearwater County].
- Illinois
  - Tazewell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Deer Creek [Tazewell County].
- Indiana
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Deer Creek [Carroll County].
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Deer Creek [Lake County].
- Iowa
  - Worth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Deer Creek [Worth County].
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Deer Creek [Anne Arundel County].
  - Harford 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 Maryland community of Deer Creek [Harford County].
- Michigan
  - Livingston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Deer Creek [Livingston County].
- Minnesota
  - Otter Tail County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Deer Creek [Otter Tail County].
- Oklahoma
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Deer Creek [Grant County].
- Texas
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Deer Creek [Clay County].
- Utah
  - Utah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Deer Creek [Utah County].
- Virginia
  - Campbell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Deer Creek [Campbell County].
- West Virginia
  - Pocahontas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Deer Creek [Pocahontas County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Deer Creek ...

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

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

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

George#&160;F. Cram Map (1901)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

More Orphans in Pickaway County ...

Can you help?

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 Pickaway County.

Adelphi
	Morgan
Bliss	Morgans

Cathers	Nash Corners
Congo
	Palestine
Elmwood Farm
	Ringgold
Haynesville
	Vee
Leitsville

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 Deer 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.