Do you know of Hooker ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hooker. 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 Hooker.
We found mention of Hooker as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Van Buren County, Michigan.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1864 and closed in 1873.
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 Hooker ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Hooker.
Within Michigan, the name Hooker is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- California
- Tehama County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Hooker [Tehama County].
- Georgia
- Dade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Hooker [Dade County].
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hooker [Clay County].
- Mississippi
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hooker [Lawrence County].
- Missouri
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hooker [Pulaski County].
- New York
- Lewis County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hooker [Lewis County].
- North Carolina
- Alleghany County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hooker [Alleghany County].
- Ohio
- Fairfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Hooker [Fairfield County].
- Oklahoma
- Texas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Hooker [Texas County].
- Pennsylvania
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hooker [Butler County].
- South Dakota
- Turner County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Hooker [Turner County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hooker ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hooker:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Van Buren 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 Van Buren County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Hooker 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |