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Welcome to Cedar Creek ...

Cedar Creek is located in Washington County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Cedar Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1848.

A typical abbreviation for Cedar Creek: Cedar Crk. (or less commonly used: Cedar Ck. or Cedar Cr.)

Cedar Creek is 1,050 feet [320 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Cedar Creek lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Cedar Creek: 262

Communities Also Named Cedar Creek ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 34 communities that are also named Cedar Creek - they are located in Arizona, Arkansas (2), Colorado, Florida, Georgia (3), Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska (2), New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina (4), Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, South Carolina (3), Tennessee, Texas (2), Utah and Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Cedar Creek.

Communities near Cedar Creek ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Cedar Creek.

  • Brookfield
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Brookfield is located in Waukesha County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookfield
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 39,164 people
  • Menomonee Falls
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • West Bend
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Mequon
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Germantown
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Germantown is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germantown
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 20,057 people
  • Hartford
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Pewaukee
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Pewaukee is located in Waukesha County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pewaukee
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 14,703 people
  • Brown Deer
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Brown Deer is located in Milwaukee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown Deer
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,191 people
  • Port Washington
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Cedarburg
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)

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 Cedar Creek. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Cedar Creek.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Cedar 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 Cedar Creek.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Cedar Creek. See our Newspapers Page for Cedar Creek.

Adding Cedar Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Cedar 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 Cedar Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Cedar Creek post office opened in 1848. The Cedar Creek post office closed in 1903.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Cedar Creek.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Washington, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Cedar Creek - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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