Do you know of Cane Creek ???

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

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

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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1828 and closed in 1866.

Communities Also Named Cane Creek ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Cane Creek.

There are two communities within Tennessee that are also named Cane Creek.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Anderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cane Creek [Anderson County].
- Van Buren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cane Creek [Van Buren County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Bibb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cane Creek [Bibb County].
  - Calhoun County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cane Creek [Calhoun County].
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cane Creek [Jefferson County].
- Arkansas
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cane Creek [Grant County].
- Georgia
  - Lumpkin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cane Creek [Lumpkin County].
- Kentucky
  - Breathitt County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cane Creek [Breathitt County].
  - Laurel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cane Creek [Laurel County].
- Missouri
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cane Creek [Butler County].
- North Carolina
  - Chatham County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cane Creek [Chatham County].
  - Cherokee County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cane Creek [Cherokee County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cane Creek ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

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 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.

Bee
Bellview	Oregon
Brighton Station
Buck Snort	Pleasant Plains

Clardyville	Renegar
Cyruston	Roperton
	Rowell
Gas Factory
	Stonesboro
Kinderhook
	Towry
McDowell's Mill
	Viney Grove
Norris Creek

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	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.
<3>	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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Cane 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.
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/