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Do you know of Sharp's Creek ???

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

Our sources for Sharp'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 Sharp's Creek other than they indicate that Sharp's Creek would be found somewhere in McPherson County, Kansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1872 and closed  in 1899.

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.

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

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

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 Sharp's Creek - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  McPherson 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 McPherson County.

Aiken 
AlphaGypsum Creek
  
Battle HillHyco
Big Turkey 
Bloomer CityKing City
Bloomfield 
BloomingdaleLittle Valley
BonavilleLone Tree
 Lookout
Cadmar 
CalmarMcPherson Center
ColfaxMonitor
Coronado Heights 
CraventonSchley
Crooked CreekSimpson
 Sora Creek
DelmoreSparta
DolesparkSpring Valley
 Sweadal
Eakin 
Eden PrairieTolle
ElivonTurkey Creek
  
FarlandWestfield
FarmsWheatland
Fuller's Ranch 

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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