Do you know of Lookout ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lookout. 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 Lookout.
Our sources for Lookout (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Lookout other than they indicate that Lookout would be found somewhere in Woods County, Oklahoma.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1901 and closed in 1974.
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 Lookout ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Lookout.
Within Oklahoma, the name Lookout is unique.
Beyond Oklahoma, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Arkansas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Lookout [Arkansas County].
- California
- Idaho
- Nez Perce 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 Idaho community of Lookout [Nez Perce County].
- Shoshone County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Lookout [Shoshone County].
- Indiana
- Ripley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lookout [Ripley County].
- Kansas
- McPherson 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 Kansas community of Lookout [McPherson County].
- Smith County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lookout [Smith County].
- Kentucky
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lookout [Pike County].
- Louisiana
- Saint Helena Parish
- 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 Louisiana community of Lookout [Saint Helena Parish].
- Saint Tammany Parish
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Lookout [Saint Tammany Parish].
- Maine
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nevada
- Ormsby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Lookout [Ormsby County].
- New Mexico
- Eddy County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Lookout [Eddy County].
- North Carolina
- Anson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Lookout [Anson County].
- Ohio
- Champaign County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lookout [Champaign County].
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Luzerne 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 Pennsylvania community of Lookout [Luzerne County].
- Wayne County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lookout [Wayne County].
- South Dakota
- Pennington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Lookout [Pennington County].
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Lookout [Fayette County].
- Wisconsin
- Buffalo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Lookout [Buffalo County].
- Wyoming
- Albany County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Lookout [Albany County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lookout ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lookout:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Oklahoma (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Lookout.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 40/44050 (Place Name: Lookout)
County: Woods (FIPS State/County: 40/151)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Lookout) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Woods 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 Woods County.
| Abbie | Irene |
| Alamo | |
| Almeda | Kingman |
| Auburn | Kintz |
| Camp Houston | Milan |
| Coy | |
| Ringwood | |
| Eagle Chief | Rusk |
| Erwin | |
| Saratoga | |
| Farry | Short Springs |
| Faulkner | Sterling |
| Fitzlen | |
| Flagg | Walthall |
| Whitehorse | |
| Galena | Wisog |
| Gamet | |
| Zula |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Lookout 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |