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Do you know of Long Creek ???

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

Our sources for Long 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 Long Creek other than they indicate that Long Creek would be found somewhere in Lincoln County, South Dakota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1877 and closed  in 1895.

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 Long Creek ...

We found seven communities that share the name Long Creek.

Within South Dakota, the name Long Creek is unique.

Beyond South Dakota, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, five are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Macon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Long Creek [Macon County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Long Creek.
    • North Carolina
      • Pender County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Long Creek [Pender County].
    • Oregon
      • Grant County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Long Creek [Grant County].
    • Prince Edward Island
      • Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Long Creek.
    • Tennessee
      • Cocke County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Long Creek [Cocke County].
      • Macon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Long Creek [Macon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Long Creek ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Long 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 Long Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Lincoln 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 Lincoln County.

Eden 
 Nurey
Haram 
 Saddle Creek
LindenSelina
 Springdale
Maple Grove 

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 10 Mar 2024