Do you know of Cook's ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cook's. 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 Cook's.

Our sources for Cook's (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Cook's other than they indicate that Cook's would be found somewhere in Grant County, New Mexico.

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 Cook's ...

We found nine communities that share the name Cook's.

Within New Mexico, the name Cook's is unique.

Beyond New Mexico, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, eight are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cook's [Montgomery County].
- Kentucky
  - Rockcastle County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cook's [Rockcastle County].
- Maine
  - Sagadahoc County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Cook's [Sagadahoc County].
- Michigan
  - Sanilac County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Cook's [Sanilac County].
  - Schoolcraft County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Cook's [Schoolcraft County].
- New York
  - Steuben County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Cook's [Steuben County].
- Ontario
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Cook's.
- Pennsylvania
  - Huntingdon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cook's [Huntingdon County].
- Washington
  - Skamania County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Cook's [Skamania County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cook's ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Grant County ...

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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 Grant County.

Coleman	Lordsburg
Copperas Vista
Corad	Mimbres Hot Springs
Crawford
	Pyramid
Deming
	Star Shaft
Gage	Summit

Hadley	Tunis
Hudson
	Whiskey Creek
Lisbon	Whitney

Footnotes ...

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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 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 Cook's 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.