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Cook County, Georgia

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1918formed

17,229pop. 2020

11cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1990. Most listings are in or near Adel.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Georgia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Cook titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Cook County Courthouse	Adel	Building	1995
SOWEGA Building	Adel	Building	1990
United States Post Office-Adel, Georgia	Adel	Building	2009

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Cook was formed in 1918 (1918-11-05) from Berrien.

COOK created from BERRIEN. Act passed 30 Jul 1918; took effect 5 Nov 1918.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Cook County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
11,180	11,919	12,201	11,822	13,490	15,771	17,229

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

11 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 11 of 11 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adel City Cemetery	31.12202	-83.43514
Antioch Cemetery	31.09781	-83.50349
Baker Cemetery	31.21648	-83.41984
Daniels Cemetery	31.09996	-83.33971
Jerusalem Cemetery	31.03977	-83.39146
Mathis Cemetery	31.29546	-83.4696
Money Cemetery	31.04974	-83.29468
Sylvester Cemetery	31.12864	-83.5256
Wilkes Cemetery	31.12059	-83.36606
Woodlawn Cemetery	31.13759	-83.41875
Woodlawn Memorial Gardens	31.11369	-83.40908

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Berrien	31.17213	-83.49433
Heartpine	31.10075	-83.41238
Jerusalem	31.05463	-83.49905
Nola	31.17241	-83.50877

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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