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Welcome to Shooks ...

Shooks is located in Knox County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Shooks, you might consider that their post office opened in 1880.

Shooks is 880 feet [268 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Shooks lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel west from Shooks (for example, toward Rogers), you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

Area Code for Shooks: 865

Communities Also Named Shooks ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Shooks - it's located in Minnesota.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Shooks.

Communities near Shooks ...

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

  • Knoxville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Kodak
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Cook Mill
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Cook Mill is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cook Mill
    • Estimated population in 2014: 31,335 people
  • Maryville
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Farragut
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Sevierville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Spring Hill
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Spring Hill is located in Anderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Hill
    • Estimated population in 2014: 16,752 people
  • Seymour Heights
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Seymour Heights is located in Sevier County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seymour Heights
    • Population from the 2010 Census: 10,919 people
  • Alcoa
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Alcoa is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alcoa
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,382 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alcoa <3>
  • Cowan Springs
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Cowan Springs is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowan Springs
    • Estimated population in 2014: 9,010 people

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Shooks ...

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

Adding Shooks to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Shooks in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Shooks was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Shooks post office opened in 1880. The Shooks post office closed in 1913.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Shooks.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Tennessee's counties, including Knox, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Shooks - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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