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Do you know of Hooper ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hooper. 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 Hooper. Our sources for Hooper (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 Hooper other than they indicate that Hooper would be found somewhere in Broome County, New York. 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 Hooper ...We found fifteen communities that share the name Hooper. Within New York, the name Hooper is unique. Beyond New York, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hooper ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hooper: Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Hooper - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Hooper. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 36/35430 (Place Name: Hooper) County: Broome (FIPS State/County: 36/007) Class: X3 More Orphans in Broome 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 Broome County. Footnotes ...
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