Do you know of Wolf Creek ???

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

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

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 1831 and closed in 1860.

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 Wolf Creek ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Wolf Creek.

Within South Carolina, the name Wolf Creek is unique.

Beyond South Carolina, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Saint Clair County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Wolf Creek [Saint Clair County].
- Arkansas
  - Pike 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 Arkansas community of Wolf Creek [Pike County].
- Illinois
  - Williamson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Wolf Creek [Williamson County].
- Indiana
  - Marshall 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 Wolf Creek [Marshall County].
- Kansas
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Wolf Creek [Lincoln County].
- Kentucky
  - Meade County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Wolf Creek [Meade County].
- Montana
  - Lewis and Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Wolf Creek [Lewis and Clark County].
- North Carolina
  - Cherokee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Wolf Creek [Cherokee County].
- Ohio
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wolf Creek [Washington County].
- Oregon
  - Josephine County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Wolf Creek [Josephine County].
  - Lane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Wolf Creek [Lane County].
- South Dakota
  - Hutchinson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Wolf Creek [Hutchinson County].
- Tennessee
  - Cocke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Wolf Creek [Cocke County].
  - 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 Tennessee community of Wolf Creek [DeKalb County].
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Wolf Creek [Lawrence County].
  - Rhea County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Wolf Creek [Rhea County].
- Texas
  - San Jacinto County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wolf Creek [San Jacinto County].
- Utah
  - Weber County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Wolf Creek [Weber County].
- West Virginia
  - Summers 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 West Virginia community of Wolf Creek [Summers County].
- Wisconsin
  - Polk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Wolf Creek [Polk County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wolf Creek ...

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in Pickens 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 Pickens 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 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 Wolf 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/