Do you know of McCook ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about McCook. 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 McCook.

Our sources for McCook (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 McCook other than they indicate that McCook would be found somewhere in Union County, South Dakota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1873 and closed  in 1911.

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 McCook ...

We found three communities that share the name McCook.

Within South Dakota, the name McCook is unique.

Beyond South Dakota, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Illinois
    • Cook County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of McCook [Cook County].
  • Nebraska
    • Red Willow County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of McCook [Red Willow County].
  • Texas
    • Hidalgo County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of McCook [Hidalgo County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for McCook ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Prairies East & Ozarks
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for McCook.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 46/39860   (Place Name: McCook)

County: Union     (FIPS State/County: 46/127)

Class: X3

More Orphans in  Union 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 Union County.