Cook Springs, Alabama
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Location in Alabama
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Alabama | ||
| County : | St. Clair County | ||
| Coordinates : | 33 ° 35 ′ N , 86 ° 24 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 22 (as of April 1, 2010 ) | ||
| Height : | 165 m | ||
| Postal code : | 35052 | ||
| Area code : | +1 205 | ||
| FIPS : | 01-12544 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0164613 | ||
Cook Springs , also known as Cooks Springs or Polk , is an unincorporated area in St. Clair County in the state of Alabama in the United States .
geography
Cook Springs is located in eastern Alabama in the southern United States.
Nearby locations include Chulavista (1 km north), Pell City (3 km east), Wolf Creek (6 km south), Branchville (8 km northwest), and Moody (8 km west). The next larger city is Birmingham, about 23 kilometers to the west, with 212,000 inhabitants .
history
The place was named after William Proctor Cook, who settled here in 1854.
traffic
Cook Springs is located just south of Interstate 20 , which runs 1470 miles from Texas in the west through six states to South Carolina in the east. There is also a junction with a shared route on US Highway 78 and Alabama State Route 4 .
St. Clair County Airport is eleven kilometers southeast , Talladega Municipal Airport 28 kilometers east and Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport 35 kilometers west .