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History · Deer Creek

19% of Deer Creek’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1953 on.

0on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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What stands out about Deer 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 Deer Creek are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Deer Creek’s history is told.

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The story

How Deer Creek came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Deer Creek.

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The six by six mile square that would become Deer Creek was first surveyed in 1851 by crews working for the U.S. government. In the fall of 1854 a different crew of surveyors marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and swamps, measuring with chain and compass. When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description:

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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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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On the map

Deer Creek on the map, 1953 to 1980

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

Deer Creek on the 1953 USGS mapDeer Creek on the 1966 USGS mapDeer Creek on the 1980 USGS map1953Rice Lake sheet · 1:250,000

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

Places that used to be

Places now gone

Gone or out of use
Spruce Grove Schoolschool

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.

StetsonvilleIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMedford4 historic placesBLittle BlackIts storyB−BernIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHoltonIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBrowningIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps 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.