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Welcome to North Brook ...

So far, we found very little information about North Brook. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added North Brook to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with North Brook, please Contact Us.

North Brook would have been located within present day Lincoln County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of North Brook, you might consider that their post office opened in 1866.

A typical abbreviation for North Brook: N. Brook

While the community is gone, the present day location for North Brook is 890 feet [271 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where North Brook was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where North Brook was located: 704 & 980<4>

Communities Also Named North Brook ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named North Brook - it's located in Tennessee.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for North Brook.

Communities near North Brook ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near North Brook.

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 North Brook. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for North Brook.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of North Brook. 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 North Brook.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around North Brook. See our Newspapers Page for North Brook.

Adding North Brook to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of North Brook in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for North Brook was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the North Brook post office opened in 1866. The North Brook post office closed in 1906.

For more details, see References and Mentions for North Brook.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about North Brook, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of North Carolina's counties, including Lincoln, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around North Brook - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 704 code has been Overlayed with the 980 area code. New phone numbers in the North Brook area will be assigned with one of these codes: 704 or 980. As a result, placing a call in the North Brook area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/