Do you know of Clear Creek ???

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

We found mention of Clear Creek as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Clackamas County, Oregon.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1867 and closed in 1876.

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 Clear Creek ...

We found 35 communities that share the name Clear Creek.

There is one other community in Oregon which is also named Clear Creek.

Beyond Oregon, we know of another 34 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 34 communities, 33 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Oregon ...
- Columbia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Clear Creek [Columbia County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Chilton 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 Alabama community of Clear Creek [Chilton County].
- Arizona
  - Yavapai County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Clear Creek [Yavapai County].
- California
  - Butte 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 California community of Clear Creek [Butte County].
  - Lassen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Clear Creek [Lassen County].
  - Siskiyou County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Clear Creek [Siskiyou County].
- Colorado
  - Adams 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 Colorado community of Clear Creek [Adams County].
- Georgia
  - DeKalb 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 Clear Creek [DeKalb County].
- Illinois
  - Putnam 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 Illinois community of Clear Creek [Putnam County].
- Indiana
  - Huntington 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 Indiana community of Clear Creek [Huntington County].
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Clear Creek [Monroe County].
- Kansas
  - Atchison 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 Kansas community of Clear Creek [Atchison County].
  - Marion County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Clear Creek [Marion County].
  - Nemaha County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Clear Creek [Nemaha County].
  - Pottawatomie County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Clear Creek [Pottawatomie County].
- Kentucky
  - Bell 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 Kentucky community of Clear Creek [Bell County].
  - Floyd County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Clear Creek [Floyd County].
- Missouri
  - Cooper County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Clear Creek [Cooper County].
  - Washington 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 Missouri community of Clear Creek [Washington County].
- Nevada
  - Nye County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Clear Creek [Nye County].
- New York
  - Cattaraugus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Clear Creek [Cattaraugus County].
- North Carolina
  - Cabarrus 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 North Carolina community of Clear Creek [Cabarrus County].
  - Mecklenburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Clear Creek [Mecklenburg County].
- Ohio
  - Fairfield 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 Ohio community of Clear Creek [Fairfield County].
  - Highland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Clear Creek [Highland County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Clear Creek.
- Texas
  - Burnet County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Clear Creek [Burnet County].
  - Galveston 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 Texas community of Clear Creek [Galveston County].
  - Hemphill County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Clear Creek [Hemphill County].
- Utah
  - Box Elder 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 Utah community of Clear Creek [Box Elder County].
  - Carbon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Clear Creek [Carbon County].
  - Utah County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Clear Creek [Utah County].
- Virginia
  - Wise County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Clear Creek [Wise County].
- West Virginia
  - Raleigh County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Clear Creek [Raleigh County].
- Yukon
  - Please visit our profile page for the Yukon community of Clear Creek.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Clear Creek ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in Clackamas 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 Clackamas County.

Footnotes ...

<1>

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Clear 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.

<2>

A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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