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Do you know of Meadowcreek ???

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

Our sources for Meadowcreek (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 Meadowcreek other than they indicate that Meadowcreek would be found somewhere in Grayson County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1894 and closed  in 1905.

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 Meadowcreek ...

We found one communities that share the name Meadowcreek.

Within Virginia, the name Meadowcreek is unique.

Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Meadowcreek in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Texas
      • Kaufman County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Meadowcreek [Kaufman County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Meadowcreek ...

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

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Meadowcreek - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for Meadowcreek.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/50648   (Place Name: Meadowcreek)

County: Grayson     (FIPS State/County: 51/077)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Meadowcreek) 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  Grayson 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 Grayson County.

Amorita 
AncellaLasca
ArbutusLong's Gap
 Lundy
Brush 
 Major
Cabin 
ClitoNuckollsville
Cornetts Store 
Coxs ChapelOld Town
Creola 
 Potato Creek
DalhartPotato
Dell 
 Rural Home
Edgewater 
 Saddle
FairySells
FinleyShamrock
 Shoal
GreekSummerfield
  
HigginsTug
  
KiplingUrsus

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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