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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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Crosby within Divide County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Crosby 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,070
20201,065-5 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

1 since 2016

Regional 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 burning1

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
13 May 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSUNDBERG

Every fire recorded in Divide County

Storms near this place

41 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCrosby$250,000Emergency 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 2007Tornado (EF1)Crosby$75,000Tornado 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 2007Thunderstorm WindCrosby$65,000Tree 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 2009Thunderstorm WindCrosby$20,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts resulted in broken tree branches, tipped over grain bins, and some broken windows.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCrosby-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindCrosby-Winds combined with copious amounts of small hail, along with some hail the size of quarters, to cause crop damage in the area.
June 2013Funnel CloudCrosby-A funnel cloud was reported one mile west of Crosby.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCrosby-Pea size hail accompanied the strong winds.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCrosby-Estimated winds of 60 mph were reported along with small hail and very heavy rain.
June 2008HailCrosby-The hail was reported to have lasted 20 minutes.
June 2007Tornado (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 2005Thunderstorm WindCrosby-Roof blown off a shed. One foot diameter limbs snapped off trees.
August 2004HailCrosby-A one mile swath of large hail damaged or destroyed 10,000 acres of crops. Estimated damage of 75 to 100 percent loss.
July 2003Tornado (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 2002Thunderstorm WindCrosby-Tree's uprooted and suspension bridge destroyed.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCrosby-Suspension bridge destroyed and several trees uprooted.
June 2025HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2022HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCrosby-no account filed
July 2020HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCrosby-no account filed
July 2019HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2015HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2015HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2015HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2015HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2012HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2012HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2012HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2012HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCrosby-no account filed
June 2008HailCrosby-no account filed
June 2007HailCrosby-no account filed
August 2006HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCrosby-no account filed
May 2003HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2003HailCrosby-no account filed
July 2001HailCrosby-no account filed
July 1995HailCrosby-no account filed
July 1994HailCrosby-no account filed
August 1994HailCrosby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Divide 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
Juno4.9 miles8
Bounty6.1 miles8
Paulson8.7 miles8
Ambrose10.3 miles10
Kermit13.2 miles10
Noonan15.3 miles10
Colgan17.8 miles6
Stady25.6 miles6

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 CrosbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1772493The 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.