Do you know of Cooks Springs ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cooks Springs. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Cooks Springs.
Our sources for Cooks Springs (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Cooks Springs other than they indicate that Cooks Springs would be found somewhere in Grayson County, Texas.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Cooks Springs ...
We found one communities that share the name Cooks Springs.
Within Texas, the name Cooks Springs is unique.
Beyond Texas, there is another community also named Cooks Springs in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Saint Clair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cooks Springs [Saint Clair County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cooks Springs ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cooks Springs:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Cooks Springs - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
Rand McNally Map of Texas (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Grayson County ...
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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Grayson County.