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Rooks Creek (other)
Rooks Creek may refer to: * Rooks Creek (Vermilion River tributary), Livingston County, Illinois, USA; a creek * Rooks Creek, Illinois, USA; a hamlet in Rooks Creek Township, Livingston County * Rooks Creek Township, Livingston County, Illinois, USA * Rooks Creek Community Consolidated School District 425, Illinois, USA; see List of school districts in Illinois * Rook's Creek, Sawtooth National Forest Sawtooth National Forest is a United States National Forest, National Forest that covers 2,110,408 acres (854,052 ha) in the U.S. states of Idaho (~96 percent) and Utah (~4 percent). Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the United States Depart ..., Idaho, USA See also * * Rook (other) * Creek (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rooks Creek (Vermilion River Tributary)
Rooks Creek is a tributary of the Vermilion River, an Illinois River tributary, in Illinois. It flows through Rooks Creek Township and runs through the property formerly occupied by Bayou Bluffs Campground in Amity Township in Livingston County, Illinois, before emptying into the Vermilion River south of Cornell Cornell University is a private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson White in 1865. Since ....“Rooks Creek Township.”. The History of Livingston County, Illinois, Wm Le Baron, Jr & Co, 1878, Chicago. 436-444, Print. History Rooks Creek and Rooks Creek Township were named after Roderick Rook. He was the first settler in the area that would eventually be Rooks Creek Township, arriving from Pennsylvania with his family some time between late 1830 and the Spring of 1831. It is noted that this area was the hunting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rooks Creek, Illinois
Rooks Creek is a small hamlet in Rooks Creek Township, Livingston County, Illinois. The hamlet is served by the Pontiac, Illinois, Pontiac mail service and shares a Pontiac address. History What little that's left is a grain elevator owned by Graymont Grain Co-op since 1990, and a house. The elevator sits along the alignment of a former Illinois Central line that was closed on December 1, 1981 and removed later. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rooks Creek Township, Livingston County, Illinois
Rooks Creek Township is located in Livingston County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its .... As of the 2010 census, its population was 567 and it contained 233 housing units. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , all land. Demographics History Rooks Creek Township and Rooks Creek were named after Roderick Rook. He was the first settler in the area that would eventually become Rooks Creek Township. He arrived from Pennsylvania with his family some time between late 1830 and the Spring of 1831.“Rooks Creek Township.”. The History of Livingston County, Illinois, Wm Le Baron, Jr & Co, 1878, Chicago. 436-444. Print. References External linksUS Census [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of School Districts In Illinois
The following is a list of school districts in Illinois. , there were 852 public school districts, including 368 elementary districts, 97 high school districts, 386 unit districts, and one Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice district, and two cooperative high schools. These districts are organized by regions set by the Illinois State Board of Education and ''not'' by the actual county boundaries; school districts can cross county boundaries, and school districts with administrative headquarters and/or schools only in certain counties can include territory in one or more other counties that do not have schools operated by that district. The state classifies Chicago Public Schools as its own classification, and it classifies other school districts in other ways. All school districts are classified as separate governments by the U.S. Census Bureau, and Illinois has no school systems dependent on another layer of government. Region 01: Adams/Brown/Cass/Morgan/Pike/Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sawtooth National Forest
Sawtooth National Forest is a United States National Forest, National Forest that covers 2,110,408 acres (854,052 ha) in the U.S. states of Idaho (~96 percent) and Utah (~4 percent). Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the United States Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, it was originally named the Sawtooth Forest Reserve Act of 1891, Forest Reserve in a proclamation issued by President Theodore Roosevelt on May 29, 1905. On August 22, 1972, a portion of the forest was designated as the Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA), which includes the Sawtooth Wilderness, Sawtooth, Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds Wilderness, Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds, and Hemingway–Boulders Wilderness, Hemingway–Boulders wilderness areas. The forest is managed as four units: the SNRA and the Fairfield, Idaho, Fairfield, Ketchum, Idaho, Ketchum, and Minidoka Ranger Districts. Sawtooth National Forest is named for the Sawtooth Range (Idaho), Sawtooth Mountains, which tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rook (other)
Rook or rooks may refer to: Games *Rook (chess), a piece in chess that moves horizontally and vertically *Rook (card game), a trick-taking card game People, characters, individuals *a rookie, a rook * Russell Rook, Baron Rook (The Lord Rook; 21st century), British Anglican priest; elevated to Baron Rook lifepeerage in 2024 *Rook (surname) * Jared Isaacman (callsign "Rook"), U.S. entrepreneur, e-finance executive, aerospace executive, private astronaut, administrator-designate of NASA * Martin "Rook" O'Prey (1962–1991), Northern Ireland republican paramilitary *Erik "Rook" Ortiz, member of the U.S. hiphop collective '' J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League'' * Rook Valard (born 1974), U.S. musician Fictional entities * The Rook (comics), a comic book character from ''Eerie'' magazine * Rook (''G.I. Joe''), a character in the ''G.I. Joe'' universe *Rook, an Utrom in ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' season 4 *Rook Bartley, a character in ''Robotech'' *Rook Blonko, a character in '' Ben 10: Omn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
