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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.

Crystal within Pembina County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Crystal 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.

YearPeople Change
2010138
2020116-22 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

Storms near this place

26 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999Tornado (F4)Crystal$1,000,000A 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 2013FloodCrystal$100,000Western portions of Crystal prepared for evacuation as small stream flooding encroached on the community.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCrystal$2,000Large trees were blown down across highway 66. A rapid temperature rise was also noted.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindCrystal$500Branches were blown down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCrystal-Wind driven hail caused widespread crop damage across southern Park and Lodema townships.
August 2013Tornado (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 2012Thunderstorm WindCrystal-A tree branch almost four feet in circumference was blown down.
June 2011Tornado (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 2007Funnel CloudCrystal-This funnel cloud was observed about 8 miles west-northwest of Hoople (looking toward Union). Distance and time are approximate.
August 2007Tornado (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 2007HailCrystal-The hail ranged in size from 1.00 to 1.75 inches.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCrystal-A large tree was blown across a driveway.
September 2019HailCrystal-no account filed
July 2016HailCrystal-no account filed
July 2016HailCrystal-no account filed
July 2014HailCrystal-no account filed
August 2013Funnel CloudCrystal-no account filed
June 2007Funnel CloudCrystal-no account filed
August 2007HailCrystal-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCrystal-no account filed
August 2002HailCrystal-no account filed
August 2002HailCrystal-no account filed
August 2002HailCrystal-no account filed
July 2001HailCrystal-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Crystal-no account filed
August 1998HailCrystal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pembina 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
Hensel6.3 miles9
Gardar10.8 miles8
Saint Thomas11.9 miles11
Mountain12.1 miles8
Dimock (historical)12.4 miles10
Akra12.7 miles10
Cavalier13.8 miles10
Hallson13.9 miles10

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 CrystalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2310201The 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.