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Crook, Colorado

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Crook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80726. The Survey maps it on the Crook quadrangle. 133 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,711 feet above sea level.

Crook within Logan County

Population over time

2 figures

Crook grew from 110 to 133 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010110
2020133+23 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Crook between 2011 and 2017, burning about 23 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCrook Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrook Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
4 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCrook Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
31 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCrook Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
31 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
23 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresCrook Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
29 December 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersCROOK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Crook: 3 occurrences, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

60 of 88 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crook in 88 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 47 hail, 32 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 3 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999Tornado (F1)Crook$100,000no account filed
August 2009Flash FloodCrook$10,000Major flooding was observed in Crook. Anywhere from 1 to 3 feet of standing water was reported in parts of town.
August 2009HailCrook$3,000no account filed
June 2020HailCrook-Baseball size hail broke a car window.
May 2019Flash FloodCrook-A thunderstorm produced flash flooding in the drainage areas west and north of Iliff along US 138, and along county road 1 1/2.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Crook-A tornado touched down briefly in an open field. No damage was observed.
June 2018HailCrook-Very large hail broke windshields and damaged vehicles.
July 2018HailCrook-Strong thunderstorm winds and hail stripped vegetation in a garden and caused a power outage.
July 1999Tornado (F0)Crook-A small tornado touched down briefly, but did no damage.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindCrook-A storm spotter recorded a peak wind gusts to 62 mph (54 kts) at Crook.
July 1998Flash FloodCrook-Heavy rain, up to 4.5 inches, caused flash flooding problems in and around Crook. Extensive flooding was reported as parts of the town were under 2 feet of water. In addition, several county roads in the immediate area were washed out.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindCrook-Thunderstorm winds up to 71 knots blew down power lines between Padroni and Crook.
July 2024HailCrook-no account filed
July 2024HailCrook-no account filed
May 2023HailCrook-no account filed
July 2021HailCrook-no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
May 2019HailCrook-no account filed
May 2019HailCrook-no account filed
May 2019HailCrook-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
June 2018HailCrook-no account filed
August 2018HailCrook-no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
July 2016HailCrook-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
April 2015Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
April 2015HailCrook-no account filed
August 2015HailCrook-no account filed
August 2015HailCrook-no account filed
June 2014HailCrook-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
June 2011HailCrook-no account filed
June 2011HailCrook-no account filed
June 2011HailCrook-no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
June 2010HailCrook-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
June 2009HailCrook-no account filed
June 2009HailCrook-no account filed
August 2009HailCrook-no account filed
August 2009HailCrook-no account filed
August 2009HailCrook-no account filed
August 2009HailCrook-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed
June 2008HailCrook-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindCrook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tobin4.2 miles11
Marcott4.3 miles9
Red Lion7.0 miles9
Proctor8.7 miles10
Griff12.1 miles8
Fleming12.5 miles8
Selma13.6 miles8
Dailey14.5 miles7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q921165The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 182716. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.