Do you know of Portage Creek ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1872 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 Portage Creek ...

We found one communities that share the name Portage Creek.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Portage Creek is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, there is another community also named Portage Creek in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alaska
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Portage Creek.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Portage Creek ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Portage Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Portage Creek.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 42/62080   (Place Name: Portage Creek)

County: McKean     (FIPS State/County: 42/083)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Portage Creek) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  McKean 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 McKean County.