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Welcome to Hancock ...

Hancock is located in Hill Country.

Hancock is located in Comal County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Hancock, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1914.

Time Zone: Hancock lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Hancock ...

While we believe that this Hancock is located in Comal County, we know of another 2 Texas communities named Hancock. Those communities are located in the following counties: Dawson and Limestone County.

Beyond Texas, there are 35 communities that are also named Hancock - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado (2), Connecticut, Florida (2), Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio (2), Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

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

Adding Hancock to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Hancock in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Hancock was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Hancock post office opened in 1914.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Hancock.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Comal, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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