Official Name: | Creek Stand, Alabama |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Alabama#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Creek Stand |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Alabama##Location in the United States |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Name1: | Alabama |
Subdivision Name2: | Macon |
Elevation Ft: | 446 |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Coordinates: | 32.2947°N -85.4775°W |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Area Code: | 334 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 116837 |
Creek Stand (also Creekstand) is an unincorporated community in Macon County, Alabama, United States.
The community is named due to it being founded on the former site of a Creek Indian village.[1] A post office operated under the name Creek Stand from 1850 to 1921.[2]
Creek Stand is located along the route of the Federal Road. A tavern was located in Creek Stand that was operated by Tustunnuggee Hopoie (Little Prince), who was the headman of Coweta and a Speaker for the Lower Creek.[3]
The Creek Stand A.M.E. Zion Church was founded in 1895 and the adjacent cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. The cemetery contains several graves of people who were involved in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.