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.
Population over time
2 figuresCrook 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 110 | |
| 2020 | 133 | +23 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Crook quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Julesburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2011Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Crook Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 8 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Crook Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 4 July 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Crook Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 31 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Crook Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 31 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sterling Fire Rescue | UNKNOWN |
| 23 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Crook Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 29 December 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | CROOK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
Storms near this place
60 of 88 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Crook | $100,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Crook | $10,000 | Major flooding was observed in Crook. Anywhere from 1 to 3 feet of standing water was reported in parts of town. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Crook | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Crook | - | Baseball size hail broke a car window. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Crook | - | 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 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Crook | - | A tornado touched down briefly in an open field. No damage was observed. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Crook | - | Very large hail broke windshields and damaged vehicles. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Crook | - | Strong thunderstorm winds and hail stripped vegetation in a garden and caused a power outage. |
| July 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Crook | - | A small tornado touched down briefly, but did no damage. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | A storm spotter recorded a peak wind gusts to 62 mph (54 kts) at Crook. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Crook | - | 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | Thunderstorm winds up to 71 knots blew down power lines between Padroni and Crook. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Crook | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crook | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Crook | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q921165 | The 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.



