[2] The mouth of Bear Creek is 6.25 miles (10.06 km) upstream on Red Bird River at an altitude of 752 feet (229 m) above sea level.

[6] It was half a mile upriver on Bear Creek from its confluence with the Red Bird River.

[6] Herd's first choice of his own name had been rejected by the USPS because it clashed with an already existing postoffice in Boyd County.

[8] Green L. Langdon moved it upriver in 1914, close to, or possibly at, the site of what was later to be Spurlock post office.

[9] It was located 1 mile upstream of the mouth of Banks Branch, a tributary of Red Bird River to the south of Bear Creek, to replace Barcreek post office after it moved back to Bear Creek.