Do you know of Brush Creek ???

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

Our sources for Brush 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 Brush Creek other than they indicate that Brush Creek would be found somewhere in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1855 and closed in 1905.

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 Brush Creek ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Brush Creek.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Brush Creek is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Perry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Brush Creek [Perry County].
- Arkansas
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Brush Creek [Grant County].
- California
  - Butte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Brush Creek [Butte County].
- Iowa
  - Fayette 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 Iowa community of Brush Creek [Fayette County].
- Kentucky
  - Rockcastle 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 Brush Creek [Rockcastle County].
- Minnesota
  - Faribault County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Brush Creek [Faribault County].
- Missouri
  - Laclede County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Brush Creek [Laclede County].
- North Carolina
  - Chatham 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 Brush Creek [Chatham County].
- Ohio
  - Muskingum County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brush Creek [Muskingum County].
- Oklahoma
  - Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Brush Creek [Delaware County].
- Tennessee
  - Sequatchie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Brush Creek [Sequatchie County].
  - Smith County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Brush Creek [Smith County].
  - Williamson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Brush Creek [Williamson County].
- West Virginia
  - Boone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Brush Creek [Boone County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brush Creek ...

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

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in Beaver 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 Beaver County.

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 Brush 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.

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

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