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Welcome to Van Hook ...

Van Hook is located in Mountrail County<1>.

Van Hook was founded in 1914 and was incorporated in 1915.

Time Zone: Van Hook lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel south from Van Hook (for example, toward Halliday), you will soon leave Central Time and cross into the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT).

Area Code for Van Hook: 701

Communities near Van Hook ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Van Hook.

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Van Hook ...

Looking for more information about Van Hook? 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 Van Hook, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Van Hook.

Adding Van Hook to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Van Hook was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Van Hook post office opened in 1915.

We also found Van Hook on a map titled Rand McNally Map of North Dakota (1937).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Van Hook.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of North Dakota's counties, including Mountrail, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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