Do you know of Flat Creek ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Flat 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 Flat Creek.<1>

Our sources for Flat Creek (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Flat Creek other than they indicate that Flat Creek would be found somewhere in Lancaster County, South Carolina.

Communities Also Named Flat Creek ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Flat Creek.

Within South Carolina, the name Flat Creek is unique.

Beyond South Carolina, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Flat Creek [Jefferson County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Flat Creek.
- Georgia
  - Fayette County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Flat Creek [Fayette County].
  - Hall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Flat Creek [Hall County].
- Idaho
  - Benewah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Flat Creek [Benewah County].
- Kentucky
  - Bath County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Flat Creek [Bath County].
- Louisiana
  - Winn Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Flat Creek [Winn Parish].
- Missouri
  - Barry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Flat Creek [Barry County].
- New York
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Flat Creek [Montgomery County].
  - Schoharie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Flat Creek [Schoharie County].
- North Carolina
  - Buncombe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Flat Creek [Buncombe County].
- Tennessee
  - Bedford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Flat Creek [Bedford County].
  - Overton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Flat Creek [Overton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Flat Creek ...

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

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

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

Rand McNally Map of South Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Lancaster 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 Lancaster County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Flat 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.