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Welcome to West Spring Creek ...

West Spring Creek is located in Warren County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of West Spring Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1851.

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

West Spring Creek is 1,460 feet [445 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: West Spring Creek lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for West Spring Creek: 814 & 582<3>

Communities near West Spring Creek ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for West Spring Creek ...

Looking for more information about West Spring Creek? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to West Spring Creek, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for West Spring Creek.

Adding West Spring Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of West Spring Creek in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for West Spring Creek was in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for West Spring Creek.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including Warren, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around West Spring Creek - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>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 814 code has been Overlayed with the 582 area code. New phone numbers in the West Spring Creek area will be assigned with one of these codes: 814 or 582. As a result, placing a call in the West Spring Creek area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.