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Welcome to Butte Creek ...

So far, we found very little information about Butte Creek. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Butte Creek to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Butte Creek, please Contact Us.

Butte Creek would have been located within present day Clackamas County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Butte Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1867.

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

While the community is gone, the present day location for Butte Creek is 320 feet [98 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Butte Creek was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Butte Creek was located: 503 & 971<4>

Communities Also Named Butte Creek ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 3 communities that are also named Butte Creek - they are located in California and Montana (2).

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

Communities near Butte Creek ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Butte Creek.

  • Salem
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Salem is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 175,891 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Salem <5>
  • Keizer
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Oregon City
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Woodburn
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Wilsonville
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Canby
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Canby is located in Clackamas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canby
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 18,027 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Canby <5>
  • Silverton
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Molalla
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Stayton
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Aumsville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)

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 Butte Creek. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Butte Creek.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Butte 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 Butte Creek.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Butte Creek. See our Newspapers Page for Butte Creek.

Adding Butte Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Butte 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 Butte Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Butte Creek post office opened in 1867. The Butte Creek post office closed in 1889.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Butte Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Oregon's counties, including Clackamas, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Butte Creek - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 503 code has been Overlayed with the 971 area code. New phone numbers in the Butte Creek area will be assigned with one of these codes: 503 or 971. As a result, placing a call in the Butte Creek area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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