Crosby, North Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Crosby City. It lies in ZIP code area 58730. The Survey maps it on the Crosby quadrangle. 1,065 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,962 feet above sea level.
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On record in Crosby
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Divide County Courthouselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresCrosby fell from 1,070 to 1,065 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 | 1,070 | |
| 2020 | 1,065 | -5 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1948 USGS Crosby quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Crosby quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Crosby quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Crosby in 2016, burning about 2 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SUNDBERG |
Storms near this place
41 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crosby in 41 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 23 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | $250,000 | Emergency management reported that the strong winds combined with large hail of 1.5 inches in diameter to cause damage from about three miles west of Crosby to three miles east of Crosby. Vinyl siding was peeled off the west side of homes, windows were broken, and vehicles were damaged. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Crosby | $75,000 | Tornado tore the roof off of an outbuilding on a farm about 21 miles southwest of Crosby and tore down part of a corral fence. It then crossed open rangeland and did no other damage. Estimated wind speed based on the EF scale was 100 mph. A second tornado was occurring closer to Crosy, Divide County, at around the same time. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | $65,000 | Tree limbs 10 to 12 inches in diameter were snapped. Part of a pool hall roof was blown off. Several buildings doors were torn off. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | $20,000 | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts resulted in broken tree branches, tipped over grain bins, and some broken windows. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | - | Winds combined with copious amounts of small hail, along with some hail the size of quarters, to cause crop damage in the area. |
| June 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Crosby | - | A funnel cloud was reported one mile west of Crosby. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | - | Pea size hail accompanied the strong winds. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | - | Estimated winds of 60 mph were reported along with small hail and very heavy rain. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Crosby | - | The hail was reported to have lasted 20 minutes. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Crosby | - | Tornado remained west and northwest of Crosby. The tornado hit no structures and no damage was reported to the National Weather Service. A second tornado was occurring in Divide County around the same time 21 miles southwest of Crosby. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | - | Roof blown off a shed. One foot diameter limbs snapped off trees. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Crosby | - | A one mile swath of large hail damaged or destroyed 10,000 acres of crops. Estimated damage of 75 to 100 percent loss. |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Crosby | - | Tornado touched down just northwest of Crosby ripping a 40 foot wide streak through a forest area where no trees were left standing. Trees on either side were still standing. The tornado skipped through Crosby tearing portions of roofs off a couple of buildings. Large trees were either damaged or toppled. A 1,800 pound bail of hay was lifted over a 4 foot fence and dropped on the other side. Additional minor damage was reported in and around the city before the tornado lifted just southeast of town. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | - | Tree's uprooted and suspension bridge destroyed. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | - | Suspension bridge destroyed and several trees uprooted. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Crosby | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Crosby | - | 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 Crosby | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1772493 | 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 1028544. 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.




