The quiet and friendly community of Christopher Creek is named after the French settler, explorer, and cartographer Isadore Christopher, who lived here in the 1880’s with his mail-order bride, Mary Hope. Christopher was the original homesteader of the 160-acre CI Ranch, which has developed into the community of Christopher Creek.

In 1903, when Isadore Christopher, after the death of his wife, decided to move away from the ranch, he sold it to John Bowman. In 1938 the ranch was sold by the Bowman’s to Paul Revere and Polly Rodema Mendenhall Ashby, the parents of Glenn Ashby.