Do you know of Glade Creek ???

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

Our sources for Glade 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 Glade Creek other than they indicate that Glade Creek would be found somewhere in Bledsoe County, Tennessee.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1871 and closed in 1904.

Communities Also Named Glade Creek ...

We found four communities that share the name Glade Creek.

There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named Glade Creek.

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

Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Putnam County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Glade Creek [Putnam County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Maryland
  - Frederick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Glade Creek [Frederick County].
- North Carolina
  - Alleghany 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 North Carolina community of Glade Creek [Alleghany County].
- West Virginia
  - Nicholas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Glade Creek [Nicholas County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Glade Creek ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

Rand McNally Map of Tennessee (1888)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Bledsoe 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 Bledsoe County.

Atpontley	Lee

Bee Creek	Merriman
Billingsly
	Pankey
Card Hill	Patton
	Pitts Cross Roads
Farmingdale
	Tollett

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>	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 Glade 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.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/