Do you know of Laurel Creek ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Laurel 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 Laurel Creek.<1>

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

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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1869 and closed in 1878.

Communities Also Named Laurel Creek ...

We found six communities that share the name Laurel Creek.

There is one other community in West Virginia which is also named Laurel Creek.

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

Communities Located In West Virginia ...
- Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Laurel Creek [Fayette County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Delaware
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Laurel Creek [Sussex County].
- Georgia
  - Gwinnett County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Laurel Creek [Gwinnett County].
- Kentucky
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Laurel Creek [Clay County].
- Tennessee
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Laurel Creek [Hamilton County].
  - Van Buren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Laurel Creek [Van Buren County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Laurel Creek ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

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

More Orphans in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County.

Alfred	MacCorkle
	Mud
Branchfield
	Rector
Coalville
Cossie	Sand Creek
Curtis	Sioto
	Smith
Jefferson	Sugar Tree

Laverne	Ten Mile
Longfellow
	Warren

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	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.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/