Also known as Cook, Nebraska, Cook, NE

Cook is a village in Johnson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 323 at the 2020 census.

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Cook is a village in Johnson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 323 at the 2020 census.

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History

Cook was founded in 1888 when the Missouri Pacific Railroad was extended to that point. It was named for Andrew Cook, the original owner of the town site.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.17 square miles (0.44 km2), all land.

Demographics

2010 census

At the 2010 census, 2010, there were 321 people, 145 households and 89 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,888.2 inhabitants per square mile (729.0/km2). There were 169 housing units at an average density of 994.1 per square mile (383.8/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 95.0% White, 1.2% Asian, 2.2% from other races, and 1.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.1% of the population.

Also known as Cook, Nebraska, Cook, NE

Notable quotes

“Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.”
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 2. Subsec. 2.
“No one here will be surprised to hear me say that the Promethean fire which first raised humanity above the animal was the cooking fire.”
— Brian Stableford, The Last Supper, in David G. Hartwell (ed.) Year's Best SF 6, p. 108 (Originally published in Science Fiction Age, March 2000)
“Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.”
— Athenæus, Book VII, Chapter 2.
“Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.”
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Stave Three.
“The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.”
— Alexander Pope, Satires, Horace, Epistle II, Book II, line 85.
“Velocius (or citius) quam asparagi coquantur.”
— More quickly than asparagus is cooked.

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