Welcome to Sinking Creek ...Sinking Creek is located in Craig County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Sinking Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1839. A typical abbreviation for Sinking Creek: Sinking Crk. (or less commonly used: Sinking Ck. or Sinking Cr.) Sinking Creek is 2,450 feet [747 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Sinking Creek is about ½ mile above sea level. Time Zone: Sinking Creek lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Codes for Sinking Creek: 540 & 826<3> Communities Also Named Sinking Creek ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Sinking Creek - it's located in Tennessee. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sinking Creek. Communities near Sinking Creek ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Sinking Creek.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Sinking Creek. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Sinking Creek. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Sinking Creek. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sinking Creek. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Sinking Creek. See our Newspapers Page for Sinking Creek. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Sinking Creek ...Looking for more information about Sinking Creek? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Sinking Creek, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Sinking Creek. Adding Sinking Creek to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Sinking Creek in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Sinking Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Sinking Creek. Footnotes ...
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