Do you know of Crooks ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Crooks. 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 Crooks.<1>

We found mention of Crooks as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Page County, Iowa.

Communities Also Named Crooks ...

We found four communities that share the name Crooks.

Within Iowa, the name Crooks is unique.

Beyond Iowa, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kentucky
  - Bath County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Crooks [Bath County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Crooks.
- Oregon
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Crooks [Union County].
- South Dakota
  - Minnehaha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Crooks [Minnehaha County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Crooks ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Crooks:

Article: Index to Abandoned Towns of Iowa
Taken from The Annals of Iowa (Volume 18, Issue 3 - Winter 1932)
Written by: Mott, David C.

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Crooks - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in Page County ...

Can you help?

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 Page County.

Darwin	Nodaway
Dasie	North Grove
	North Mills
Franklin Grove
	Page City
Harper	Page

Loy	Snow Hill

Morsman	Tarkio

Nodaway Mills	Union Grove

Footnotes ...

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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.

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Crooks could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.