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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Hooks (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Hooks. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Hooks is located in Bowie County.

To see how the shape of Texas' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Bowie County: Little River (AR), Miller (AR), McCurtain (OK), Cass, Morris & Red River.

Below are the counties that are near Hooks. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hooks:

  • Bowie County     (The home county of Hooks)
  • Cass County
  • Morris County
  • Red River County
  • Hempstead County (AR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hooks, with the one closest to Hooks listed first.
    • Fulton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • McNab
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • McNab is located in Hempstead County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McNab
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 63 people
  • Howard County (AR)
    • Saratoga
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Little River County (AR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hooks, with the one closest to Hooks listed first.
    • Richmond
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Ashdown
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Ashdown is located in Little River County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashdown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,359 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ashdown <1>
    • Ogden
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Ogden is located in Little River County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogden
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 154 people
    • Foreman
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Foreman is located in Little River County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foreman
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 922 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Foreman <1>
    • Alleene
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Alleene is located in Little River County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alleene
    • Wilton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Millwood
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Yarborough Landing
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Winthrop
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
  • Miller County (AR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hooks, with the one closest to Hooks listed first.
    • Texarkana
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Rondo
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Genoa
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Genoa is located in Miller County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genoa
    • Roberts ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Roberts is located in Miller County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
    • Fouke
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Fouke is located in Miller County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fouke
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 876 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fouke <1>
  • Sevier County (AR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hooks, with the one closest to Hooks listed first.
    • Ben Lomond
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Paraloma
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Hooks, see our County-by-County Page for Hooks.

Cemeteries Near Hooks ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hooks.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Hooks - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Hooks covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hooks, with the one closest to Hooks listed first.

  • Wilder Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Elliott Plot
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Antioch Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Tillar Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Mullins Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Reed Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Till Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Red Springs Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Runnels Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Collon Plot
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Rock Hill Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Elliott Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (157 more) ...
    • McAdams Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Bob Lane Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Piney Grove Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Hooks had a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Hooks had a population of 2,709 people.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Hooks, with the one closest to Hooks listed first.

  • Whaley
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Whaley is located in Bowie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whaley
  • Boston
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • New Boston
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Corley
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Corley is located in Bowie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corley
  • Eylau
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Eylau is located in Bowie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eylau
  • Woodstock
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Woodstock is located in Bowie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodstock
  • Texarkana
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Richmond
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Malta
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Malta is located in Bowie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malta
  • Simms
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Texarkana
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Ogden
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Ogden is located in Little River County (AR)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogden
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 154 people
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Rocky Comfort
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Rocky Comfort is located in Little River County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Comfort
    • Sulphur
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Bassett
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Hooks. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hooks.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Hooks ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hooks.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Hooks. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Hooks and those printed in the larger area surrounding Hooks.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3> of Hooks.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Hooks:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Hooks, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hooks) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.