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History · Rock Creek

Rock Creek’s post office opened in 1878, and 25% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Rock Creek School. Below: maps from 1905 on and the census since 1860.

1878first post office
1on the National Register
25%homes built before 1940
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How Rock Creek began

When was Rock Creek founded?

1878

The Rock Creek post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Morgan (1808) and Rockcreek Station (1890), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 443 in 18602020 census: 667148 years
Founding year: the first Rock Creek post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Rock 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 Rock Creek are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19055 editions of the USGS map, 1905 to 1994. Watch Rock Creek change.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Rock Creek.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Rock Creek’s history is told.

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On the map

Rock Creek on the map, 1905 to 1994

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

Rock Creek on the 1905 USGS mapRock Creek on the 1960 USGS mapRock Creek on the 1970 USGS mapRock Creek on the 1985 USGS mapRock Creek on the 1994 USGS map1905Jefferson sheet · 1:62,500

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Rock Creek’s post office has been open since 1878. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Morgan
1808–1878
Rock Creek
1878–today
Rockcreek Station
1890–1954
18001910today
Gone or out of use
Rock Creek Stationlocale

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

The story

How Rock Creek came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Rock Creek.

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The Village of Rock Creek was settled in 1798, organized in 1819, and incorporated as a village on April 5, 1849.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Rock Creek, 1878–1924

Passages that mention Rock Creek, cut from the printed page as they were published.

The village, or, as it was originally called, “ the town of Rock Creek,” was incorporated as such in the spring of 1849. To N. L. Chaffee, at that time representative for the county in the Ohio State legislature, are the people of this village indebted for introducing and securing the passage of th…
History of Ashtabula County, Ohio1878 · page 196Read the page →
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The village, or, as it was originally called, “ the town of Rock Creek,” was incorporated as such in the spring of 1849. To N. L. Chaffee, at that time representative for the county in the Ohio State legislature, are the people of this village indebted for introducing and securing the passage of the act of incorporation. The incorporation includes the whole of original lots Nos. 115, 116, 125, 126, and the south half of lots Nos. 105 and 106.

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A graded-school system was organized in the village of Rock Creek, in the year 1871. The high-school building, a two-story brick structure, situated on High street, was erected in 1869, at a cost of twelve thousand dollars.
History of Ashtabula County, Ohio1878 · page 197Read the page →
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A graded-school system was organized in the village of Rock Creek, in the year 1871. The high-school building, a two-story brick structure, situated on High street, was erected in 1869, at a cost of twelve thousand dollars.

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Rock Creek and East Trumbull were so anxious for daily mail service that they determined to secure it without expense to the government and independent of official sanction. To this end they clubbed together, raised a fund and pledges of support and put on a daily hack line touching at Rock Creek, …
History of Ashtabula County Ohio1924 · page 106Read the page →
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Rock Creek and East Trumbull were so anxious for daily mail service that they determined to secure it without expense to the government and independent of official sanction. To this end they clubbed together, raised a fund and pledges of support and put on a daily hack line touching at Rock Creek, East Trumbull, Mechanicsville and Ashtabula. It does not appear

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Roger Foot’s first venture in business, after coming to Rock Creek, was the purchase from Ambrose Humphrey of the latter’s saw mill and grist mill, to which he made improvements and additions, enlarging the last named department. In the course of time so much of the county was cleared and devoted t…
History of Ashtabula County Ohio1924 · page 368Read the page →
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Roger Foot’s first venture in business, after coming to Rock Creek, was the purchase from Ambrose Humphrey of the latter’s saw mill and grist mill, to which he made improvements and additions, enlarging the last named department. In the course of time so much of the county was cleared and devoted to raising of wheat, that it became a drug on the local market, and this situation decided Mr. Foot to branch out, by introducing flour-making machinery in his establishment. This necessitated the purchase of new buhr-stones and new bolting-cloth, to purchase which

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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

Rock Creek, 1808 to 1954

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1808Post officeThe Morgan post office opens
  3. 1878Post officeThe Morgan post office closes
  4. 1878Post officeThe Rock Creek post office opens
  5. 1890Post officeThe Rockcreek Station post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1905On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 1954Post officeThe Rockcreek Station post office closes
By decade

Rock Creek, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Excursion Train to Woodland Beach Park2024Excursion Train to Woodland Beach ParkMap of Ashtabula County Ohio Highlighting Rock Creek Village2015Map of Ashtabula County Ohio Highlighting Rock Creek …MapRock Creek School front2014Rock Creek School frontRock Creek Community United Methodist Church2014Rock Creek Community United Methodist ChurchRock Creek Church of Christ2014Rock Creek Church of ChristOHMap-doton-Rock Creek2004OHMap-doton-Rock Creek
On the National Register

1 historic place in Rock Creek

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2005
Rock Creek School
Rock Creek School
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Neo-Classical Revival1
Rock Creek SchoolNeo-Classical Revival

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Rock Creek, census by census

0200400600800190019502000Peak: 731

Between 443 and 731 people in every census since 1860.

17 censuses, 1860–2020.

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

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Questions about Rock Creek’s history

What year was Rock Creek founded?

The Rock Creek post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Rock Creek?

One place: the Rock Creek School (listed 2005).

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 (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.