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Crawford, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Precinct 10. It lies in ZIP code area 69339. It stands on Bozle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crawford quadrangle. 840 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,678 feet above sea level.

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Crawford within Dawes County

On record in Crawford

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Crawford fell from 997 to 840 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
2010997
2020840-157 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Crawford between 1997 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 9 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
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
28 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2018Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1997Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska National ForestQUONSET
1 September 2003Natural9.0 acresNebraska National ForestMIDDLE
1 September 2003Natural9.2 acresNebraska National ForestSOUTH
26 August 2008Natural5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawes County

Storms near this place

60 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crawford in 63 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 51 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCrawford1 hurt, $100,000Estimated 70 mph thunderstorm winds uprooted some trees and knockedout power in Crawford.
August 1996LightningCrawford$400,000no account filed
June 1998HailCrawford$6,500A storm produced walnut size hail in Crawford.
July 2023HailCrawford-Report received of dented cars and 1.25 inch hail.
August 2023HailCrawford-Spotter reported quarter sized hail 11 miles north of Crawford.
August 2021HailCrawford-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail in Crawford.
August 2021HailCrawford-Trained spotter measured ping pong ball sized hail in Crawford.
June 2020HailCrawford-Large hail damaged resident's windows and neighbor's car.
June 2018HailCrawford-Quarter to half dollar size hail was observed just west of Chadron State Park.
July 2017HailCrawford-Half dollar size hail was observed.
June 2016HailCrawford-Quarter size hail was reported 11 miles north of Crawford.
June 2016HailCrawford-Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported seven miles southeast of Crawford.
June 2015HailCrawford-Golf ball size hail was observed at Crawford.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCrawford-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph at Crawford.
June 2014HailCrawford-Quarter size hail was observed in Crawford.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCrawford-Wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated in Crawford.
August 2014HailCrawford-Penny to quarter size hail covered the ground south of Crawford.
September 2014Heavy RainCrawford-A spotter measured 4.51 inches of rain.
August 2013HailCrawford-Quarter size hail was reported north of Crawford.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindCrawford-An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported north of Crawford.
May 2013HailCrawford-Penny to quarter size hail was reported eight miles southeast of Crawford.
May 2013HailCrawford-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported.
May 2013Funnel CloudCrawford-The Chadron warning point relayed 15 reports of funnel clouds north of Crawford.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Crawford-The Chadron Warning Point received three reports of a tornado on the ground north of Crawford. No damage was reported.
May 2012HailCrawford-Quarter sized hail was reported.
July 2011HailCrawford-Hail was accompanied by heavy rain and gusty wind.
July 2011HailCrawford-Dime to quarter size hail.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCrawford-The public reported tree limbs blown down.
August 2009HailCrawford-Hail was reported from 1/2 up to 1 inch in diameter over the area.
June 2009HailCrawford-Hail from 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter was reported.
April 2008HailCrawford-Hail from 1.25 to 1.75 inches in diameter fell between Crawford and Whitney, Nebraska.
July 2007HailCrawford-Nickel to Quarter sized hail reported in Crawford.
July 2005HailCrawford-1 inch to 1.75 inch diameter hail reported.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Crawford-Brief touchdown over open rangeland.
July 1999HailCrawford-3/4 inch hail reported 9 miles south of Crawford, NE
June 1999HailCrawford-Nickel size hail reported 11 miles north of Crawford, NE
July 2020HailCrawford-no account filed
June 2020HailCrawford-no account filed
June 2019HailCrawford-no account filed
June 2019HailCrawford-no account filed
June 2019HailCrawford-no account filed
June 2019HailCrawford-no account filed
May 2018HailCrawford-no account filed
July 2011HailCrawford-no account filed
May 2011HailCrawford-no account filed
July 2011Funnel CloudCrawford-no account filed
July 2010HailCrawford-no account filed
May 2010HailCrawford-no account filed
May 2010HailCrawford-no account filed
April 2008HailCrawford-no account filed
June 2008HailCrawford-no account filed
March 2007HailCrawford-no account filed
June 2007HailCrawford-no account filed
May 2005HailCrawford-no account filed
July 2004HailCrawford-no account filed
June 2003HailCrawford-no account filed
June 2002HailCrawford-no account filed
May 2000HailCrawford-no account filed
May 2000HailCrawford-no account filed
July 2000HailCrawford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dawes 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
Horn5.7 miles8
Belmont9.7 miles8
Whitney10.8 miles8
Pine Ridge13.4 miles11
Marsland17.6 miles11
Dakota Junction20.8 miles9
Chadron24.1 miles8
Bordeaux32.3 miles8

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 CrawfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963768The 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 835534. 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.