Crane, Montana
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savage-Crane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59217. It stands on Crane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crane quadrangle. 91 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,952 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCrane fell from 102 to 91 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 | 102 | |
| 2020 | 91 | -11 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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.
- 1909 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Crane quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Sidney quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Crane in 2017, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Eastern Land Office | RAIN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crane in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 17 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Crane | 1 hurt, $50,000 | The National Weather Service in Glasgow, along with Richland County Disaster and Emergency Services conducted a damage survey of a property. The mobile home and its associated storage building (also a mobile home) were thrown from its foundation. The primary home lost its metal frame and was thrown onto a storage shed to the southwest, about 60 feet to the southwest. The two mobile homes, which did not appear to have been strapped down, were overturned and one had the entire frame bent and twisted. While there were tree branches broken in the region, the most significant damage was on this property site, due to the rural nature of the area. Power poles on the property were not damaged, although the lines were snapped. ||One 79 year old gentleman was in the home with his dog also on the property. The gentleman was in the mobile home and suffered injuries requiring transport to a local and then regional hospital. The dog was found trapped under rubble but was ok. ||Based off of the damage that was observed, the winds were estimated at 100 mph. The tornado continued through rural area to the south-southeast where it went into North Dakota about 5 miles south-southeast of the property site with the damage. No reported damage has been noted in North Dakota and the tornado dissipated south-southwest of Trotters. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Crane | $15,000 | The roofs on greenhouses were damaged. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Crane | $1,000 | Richland County Law enforcement reported a washed out low spot on County Highway 120 about two miles west of Highway 16. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane | - | The Crane W Montana Climate Office mesonet site (CRBM8) recorded a 61 mph wind gust. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Crane | - | Public measured golf ball size hail. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane | - | Trained spotter estimated wind gusts of at least 60 mph. Large cottonwood trees bending with the wind. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Crane | - | Public estimated nickel-sized hail stones. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Crane | - | Spotter estimated half dollar-sized hail stones. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Crane | - | Spotter estimated quarter-sized hail stones. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Crane | - | Spotter estimated quarter-sized hail stones. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Crane | - | The hail covered the ground and lasted for 20 minutes. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Crane | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Crane | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Crane | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Crane | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Crane | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Crane | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Crane | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Crane | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Crane | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Crane | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sears (historical) | 2.8 miles | 7 | |
| Piche | 2.8 miles | 7 | |
| Hoffmanville | 5.0 miles | 7 | |
| Midway | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Newlon Junction | 6.7 miles | 8 | |
| Riverview | 8.2 miles | 8 | |
| Savage | 9.4 miles | 8 | |
| Knife River | 9.5 miles | 8 |
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 Crane | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5790545 | 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 770276. 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.
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.





