Buck Creek, IN

Buck Creek is an unincorporated census-designated place in Washington Township, Tippecanoe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The 2020 census counted 182 residents. Buck Creek is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. Buck Creek was originally called Transitville. A newcomer can read Buck Creek through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Buck Creek comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. A post office was established under the name Transitville in 1858, and was renamed Buck Creek in 1885. Buck Creek sits at the intersection of Tippecanoe County Road 750 East and a northeast–southwest Norfolk Southern railroad line between the cities of Lafayette and Delphi.