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History · Long Creek

Long Creek’s post office opened in 1828, and 42% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Long Creek began

When was Long Creek founded?

1828

The Long Creek post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Lillington (1859), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 277198 years
Founding year: the first Long Creek post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Long 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 Long Creek are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1828: 198 years of Long Creek.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Long Creek’s history is told.

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Timeline

Long Creek, 1828 to 1906

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1828Post officeThe Long Creek post office opens
  3. 1859Post officeThe Lillington post office opens
  4. 1874Post officeThe Lillington post office closes
  5. 1892Born hereMinnie Evans is born here
  6. 20th century
  7. 1906Post officeThe Long Creek post office closes
The story so far

Long Creek, in brief

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

Long Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Pender County, North Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 277. The community is in southwestern Pender County, along North Carolina Highway 210. It is named for Long Creek, a southward-flowing stream that runs along the western edge of the community and leads southeast to the Northeast Cape Fear River. The community is 7 miles (11 km) west of Rocky Point, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Burgaw, the Pender county seat, and 21 miles (34 km) north of Wilmington.

Its first post office opened in 1828.

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

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Long Creek had its own post office from 1828 to 1906. Another post office, Lillington, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Long Creek
1828–1906
Lillington
1859–1874
18201920today
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Long Creek
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Long Creek’s history

What year was Long Creek founded?

The Long Creek post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.