Do you know of Fort Hancock ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fort Hancock. 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 Fort Hancock.
Our sources for Fort Hancock (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 Fort Hancock other than they indicate that Fort Hancock would be found somewhere in El Paso County, Texas.
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 Fort Hancock ...
We found two communities that share the name Fort Hancock.
There is one other community in Texas which is also named Fort Hancock.
Beyond Texas, there is another community also named Fort Hancock in the United States.
- Communities Located In Texas ...
- Hudspeth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Fort Hancock [Hudspeth County].
- Hudspeth County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- New Jersey
- Monmouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Fort Hancock [Monmouth County].
- New Jersey
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fort Hancock ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fort Hancock:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fort Hancock - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
Rand McNally Map of Texas (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
Rand McNally Map of Texas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in El Paso 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 El Paso County.