Welcome to Duck Creek ...
So far, we found very little information about Duck Creek. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Duck Creek to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Duck Creek - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Duck Creek, please Contact Us.
Duck Creek was located While we don't have the exact location of Duck Creek , we believe that it would have been located within present day Dallas County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Duck Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1848. A typical abbreviation for Duck Creek: Duck Crk. (or less commonly used: Duck Ck. or Duck Cr.) Time Zone: The area where Duck Creek was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 9 communities that are also named Duck Creek - they are located in Delaware, Georgia (2), Illinois, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Duck Creek. We originally found mention of Duck Creek in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Duck Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3> We also found Duck Creek in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Duck Creek.
The official website for Dallas County: www.dallascounty.org/ The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/Communities Also Named Duck Creek ...
Adding Duck Creek to Our Gazetteer ...
From that list, the Duck Creek post office opened in 1848.Off-the-Road Links ...
Footnotes ...
<1> We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Duck Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. <2> If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Dallas, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. <3> A copy of their list with background information can be found at:
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/