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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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
Fort Robinson and Red Cloud AgencyNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
Army Theatrelisted 1988
Co-operative Block Buildinglisted 1985
US Post Office-Crawfordlisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresCrawford 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 997 | |
| 2020 | 840 | -157 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Crawford quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Crawford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 1997Regional 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 maintenance | 9 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 1997 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska National Forest | QUONSET |
| 1 September 2003 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Nebraska National Forest | MIDDLE |
| 1 September 2003 | Natural | 9.2 acres | Nebraska National Forest | SOUTH |
| 26 August 2008 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 63 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | 1 hurt, $100,000 | Estimated 70 mph thunderstorm winds uprooted some trees and knockedout power in Crawford. |
| August 1996 | Lightning | Crawford | $400,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Crawford | $6,500 | A storm produced walnut size hail in Crawford. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Crawford | - | Report received of dented cars and 1.25 inch hail. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Crawford | - | Spotter reported quarter sized hail 11 miles north of Crawford. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Crawford | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail in Crawford. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Crawford | - | Trained spotter measured ping pong ball sized hail in Crawford. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Crawford | - | Large hail damaged resident's windows and neighbor's car. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Crawford | - | Quarter to half dollar size hail was observed just west of Chadron State Park. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Crawford | - | Half dollar size hail was observed. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Crawford | - | Quarter size hail was reported 11 miles north of Crawford. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Crawford | - | Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported seven miles southeast of Crawford. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Crawford | - | Golf ball size hail was observed at Crawford. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph at Crawford. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Crawford | - | Quarter size hail was observed in Crawford. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | - | Wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated in Crawford. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Crawford | - | Penny to quarter size hail covered the ground south of Crawford. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Crawford | - | A spotter measured 4.51 inches of rain. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Crawford | - | Quarter size hail was reported north of Crawford. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | - | An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported north of Crawford. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Crawford | - | Penny to quarter size hail was reported eight miles southeast of Crawford. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Crawford | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was reported. |
| May 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Crawford | - | The Chadron warning point relayed 15 reports of funnel clouds north of Crawford. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Crawford | - | The Chadron Warning Point received three reports of a tornado on the ground north of Crawford. No damage was reported. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Crawford | - | Quarter sized hail was reported. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Crawford | - | Hail was accompanied by heavy rain and gusty wind. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Crawford | - | Dime to quarter size hail. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | - | The public reported tree limbs blown down. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Crawford | - | Hail was reported from 1/2 up to 1 inch in diameter over the area. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Crawford | - | Hail from 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter was reported. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Crawford | - | Hail from 1.25 to 1.75 inches in diameter fell between Crawford and Whitney, Nebraska. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Crawford | - | Nickel to Quarter sized hail reported in Crawford. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Crawford | - | 1 inch to 1.75 inch diameter hail reported. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Crawford | - | Brief touchdown over open rangeland. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Crawford | - | 3/4 inch hail reported 9 miles south of Crawford, NE |
| June 1999 | Hail | Crawford | - | Nickel size hail reported 11 miles north of Crawford, NE |
| July 2020 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Crawford | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horn | 5.7 miles | 8 | |
| Belmont | 9.7 miles | 8 | |
| Whitney | 10.8 miles | 8 | |
| Pine Ridge | 13.4 miles | 11 | |
| Marsland | 17.6 miles | 11 | |
| Dakota Junction | 20.8 miles | 9 | |
| Chadron | 24.1 miles | 8 | |
| Bordeaux | 32.3 miles | 8 |
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 Crawford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q963768 | 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 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.




