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History · Salt Creek

Salt Creek’s post office opened in 1880, and 26% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1960 on and the census since 2000.

1880first post office
0on the National Register
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How Salt Creek began

When was Salt Creek founded?

1880

The Salt Creek post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 648 in 20002020 census: 507146 years
Founding year: the first Salt Creek post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Salt Creek’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Salt Creek are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Salt Creek’s homes were built before 1948.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Salt Creek’s history is told.

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The story so far

Salt Creek, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Salt Creek yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Salt Creek is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Pueblo, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Salt Creek CDP was 507 at the United States Census 2020. The Pueblo post office (Zip Code 81006) serves the area. The community takes its name from Salt Creek, a stream that flows on the community's west side.

Its first post office opened in 1880. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 587 to 507 (-14%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Salt Creek, 1880 to 1960

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Salt Creek post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1908Post officeThe Salt Creek post office closes
  5. 1960On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Salt Creek, decade by decade

Today2 recent
St. Joseph Catholic Church (Pueblo, Colorado)2023St. Joseph Catholic Church (Pueblo, Colorado)Salt Creek, Colorado2017Salt Creek, Colorado
On the map

Salt Creek on the map, 1960 to 1970

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Salt Creek. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Salt Creek on the 1960 USGS mapSalt Creek on the 1970 USGS map1960Southeast Pueblo sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Salt Creek.

People over time

Salt Creek, census by census

010020030040050060070020002020Peak: 648

Between 507 and 648 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Salt Creek’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Salt Creek

Nobody well known was born in Salt Creek itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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David PackardAmerican electrical engineer, businessman, and … · b. 1912
Jon WattsAmerican film director, producer and screenwrit… · b. 1981
Connie SawyerAmerican actress · b. 1912
Donald Howard MenzelAmerican astronomer · b. 1901
Grant WithersAmerican film actor · b. 1905
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Joe BordeauxActor · b. 1886
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Salt Creek had its own post office from 1880 to 1908.

Salt Creek
1880–1908
18801950today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

BlendeIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Salt Creek’s history

What year was Salt Creek founded?

The Salt Creek post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.