Crystal, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Crystal City. It lies in ZIP code area 58222. The Survey maps it on the Crystal quadrangle. 116 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.
On record in Crystal
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
- Crystal Bridgelisted 1997
Population over time
2 figuresCrystal fell from 138 to 116 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 | 138 | |
| 2020 | 116 | -22 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1944 USGS Crystal quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Crystal quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
26 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal in 26 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 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 1999 | Tornado (F4) | Crystal | $1,000,000 | A tornado touched down southeast of Mountain, where it damaged several farmsteads. One farm home was completely lifted up and tossed 100 yards. A combine was also picked up and thrown several hundred feet. A swather was picked up and wrapped around several trees. In the town of Mountain, numerous trees were knocked flat. 2 mobile homes were destroyed, the roof was torn off a house, and a garage was destroyed. |
| May 2013 | Flood | Crystal | $100,000 | Western portions of Crystal prepared for evacuation as small stream flooding encroached on the community. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal | $2,000 | Large trees were blown down across highway 66. A rapid temperature rise was also noted. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal | $500 | Branches were blown down. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal | - | Wind driven hail caused widespread crop damage across southern Park and Lodema townships. |
| August 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Crystal | - | A funnel cloud was observed first. Then dust was seen being drawn into the circulation from the ground. The tornado tracked intermittently for about a mile with peak winds estimated at 70 mph. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal | - | A tree branch almost four feet in circumference was blown down. |
| June 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Crystal | - | This tornado began in Walsh County, about six miles west-southwest of Park River. The tornado tracked intermittently for about 26 total miles, while wrapped in heavy rain and downburst winds. About ten of the miles occurred in Pembina County, while about sixteen of the miles occurred in Walsh County. Numerous trees were either snapped or uprooted along its track. Peak winds were estimated at 95 mph. |
| August 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Crystal | - | This funnel cloud was observed about 8 miles west-northwest of Hoople (looking toward Union). Distance and time are approximate. |
| August 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Crystal | - | After the first tornado tracked from near Union (Cavalier County) to near Garder (Pembina County), a second tornado was produced by the same parent supercell thunderstorm. This tornado touched down about 5 miles west-southwest of Crystal (Pembina County) and continued to about 1.5 miles west of Hoople (Walsh County). The total tornado track was about 5 miles, and about 3 miles of the track occurred in Pembina County. The tornado made numerous strikes in shelterbelts along its path. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Crystal | - | The hail ranged in size from 1.00 to 1.75 inches. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal | - | A large tree was blown across a driveway. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Crystal | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Crystal | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Crystal | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Crystal | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Crystal | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Crystal | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Crystal | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Crystal | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Crystal | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Crystal | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Crystal | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Crystal | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Crystal | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hensel | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Gardar | 10.8 miles | 8 | |
| Saint Thomas | 11.9 miles | 11 | |
| Mountain | 12.1 miles | 8 | |
| Dimock (historical) | 12.4 miles | 10 | |
| Akra | 12.7 miles | 10 | |
| Cavalier | 13.8 miles | 10 | |
| Hallson | 13.9 miles | 10 |
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 Crystal | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2310201 | 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 1028559. 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.
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.






