Cooke,

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Cooke
       n 1: United States journalist (born in England in 1908) [syn: {Alistair
            Cooke}, {Alfred Alistair Cooke}]
       2: United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance
          the Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a
          financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905) [syn: {Jay Cooke}]



From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Cooke -- U.S. County in Texas
     Population (2000):    36363
     Housing Units (2000): 15061
     Land area (2000):     873.635202 sq. miles (2262.704690 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    25.170649 sq. miles (65.191679 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    898.805851 sq. miles (2327.896369 sq. km)
     Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
     Location:             33.621744 N, 97.168280 W
     Headwords:
      Cooke
      Cooke, TX
      Cooke County
      Cooke County, TX