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Welcome to Brooks ...So far, we found very little information about Brooks. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Brooks to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Brooks, please Contact Us. Brooks would have been located within present day Bay County<2>. We aren't confident of the location of Brooks, so consider the above location as an estimate.<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Brooks, you might get a feel for it by knowing that during our research the earliest mention that we found (so far) was in a book dated 1895. Time Zone: The area where Brooks was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time If Brooks still existed, it would have been in the (989) area code. Communities Also Named Brooks ...While we believe that this Brooks is located in Bay County, we know of another 2 Michigan communities named Brooks. Those communities are located in the following counties: Menominee and Newaygo County. Beyond Michigan, there are 30 communities that are also named Brooks - they are located in Alabama, Alberta, Arkansas (2), California, Georgia (2), Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota (2), Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina (2), Ohio, Oregon, Texas (2), Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Brooks. Communities near Brooks ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Brooks.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Brooks. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Brooks. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Brooks. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Brooks. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Brooks. See our Newspapers Page for Brooks. Adding Brooks to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Brooks in the FIPS-55 file. For more information, see the Referenced FIPS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Brooks was in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). We also found Brooks on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Brooks. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Bay County: www.co.bay.mi.us/ The official website for State of Michigan: https://www.michigan.gov/ Footnotes ...
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