Do you know of Skull Creek ???

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

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

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 1853 and closed  in 1857.

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 Skull Creek ...

We found two communities that share the name Skull Creek.

Within Texas, the name Skull Creek is unique.

Beyond Texas, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Saskatchewan
    • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Skull Creek.
  • Wyoming
    • Weston County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Skull Creek [Weston County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Skull Creek ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Skull Creek.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 48/68144   (Place Name: Skull Creek)

County: Colorado     (FIPS State/County: 48/089)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Skull Creek) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Colorado County ...

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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 Colorado County.