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Do you know of Allen's Creek ???

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

Our sources for Allen's 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 Allen's Creek other than they indicate that Allen's Creek would be found somewhere in Amherst County, Virginia.

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 Allen's Creek ...

We found three communities that share the name Allen's Creek.

There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Allen's Creek.

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

  • Communities Located In Virginia ...
    • Nelson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Allen's Creek [Nelson County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Indiana
      • Monroe County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Allen's Creek [Monroe County].
    • Tennessee
      • Lewis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Allen's Creek [Lewis County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Allen's Creek ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Allen's Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Amherst 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 Amherst County.

Amherst Springs 
AmyLeeds
 Leftwich
ChestnutLong Mountain
  
DillardMayflower
Dodds StoreMcIvors
 Mount Pleasant
ExperimentMundy's Mill
  
FalconervilleNew Glasgow Depot
Friar 
 Pryor
Gait's Mills 
GaitvilleRiversville
  
Harris CreekStapleton Mills
Henleys StoreStony Fork
HitchensvilleSwans
  
IdemWalkerford
 Way
James River 

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Allen's 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.









 

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