Crook

• The English surname is derived from the noun crook (“bend, hook”).
• The places in Durham and Cumbria are of Brythonic origin, from crug (“hill, mound”).

Crook

1. A town in County Durham, England.
2. A village in South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England.
3. A statutory town in Logan County, Colorado, United States, named after George Crook
4. An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri, United States, so named because of a local merchant's business practices (thus being derived from crook (thief)).
5. A surname.

• Crook County

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Crook”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 387.