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Cooke County
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county in Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Seat
- Gainesville
- Largest city
- Gainesville
- Total
- 898 sq mi (2,330 km )
- Land
- 875 sq mi (2,270 km )
- Water
- 24 sq mi (62 km ) 2.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 44,461
- Density
- 47.6/sq mi (18.4/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 26th
- Website
- www .co .cooke .tx .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Texas
- Contains
- Gainesville
- Capital
- Gainesville
- Population
- 41668
- Area
- 2328
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Love County
- Official website
- www.co.cooke.tx.us
- Image
- Cooke county tx courthouse 2015.jpg
- Households
- 15530
Show 9 more facts
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Cooke County, Texas
- water as percent of area
- 2.6
- native label
- Cooke County
- Commons category
- Cooke County, Texas
- topic's main category
- Category:Cooke County, Texas
- inception
- 1849-00-00
- different from
- Coke County
- per capita income
- 32078
- P12749
- 1914 Hartbeespoortdam
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Cooke County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. At the 2020 census, its population was 41,668. The county seat is Gainesville. The county was founded in 1848 and organized the next year. It is named for William Gordon Cooke, a soldier during the Texas Revolution. It is a part of the Texoma region.
Cooke County comprises the Gainesville, TX micropolitan statistical area, which is also included in the Dallas–Fort Worth, TX-OK combined statistical area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cooke County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.