Welcome to Hanks ...The city of Hanks is located in Williams County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Hanks, you might consider that their post office opened in 1916. Hanks is 2,110 feet [643 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Hanks lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel west from Hanks (for example, toward Medicine Lake (MT)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT). Area Code for Hanks: 701 Communities Also Named Hanks ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Hanks - it's located in Arkansas. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Hanks. Communities near Hanks ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Hanks.
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 Hanks. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Hanks. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Hanks. 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 Hanks. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Hanks. See our Newspapers Page for Hanks. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Hanks ...Looking for more information about Hanks? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Hanks, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Hanks. Adding Hanks to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Hanks in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Hanks was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> We also found Hanks on a map titled Rand McNally Map of North Dakota (1937). For more details, see References and Mentions for Hanks. Footnotes ...
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