Crookston, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Crookston precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69212. The Survey maps it on the Crookston West quadrangle. 71 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,697 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCrookston grew from 69 to 71 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 | 69 | |
| 2020 | 71 | +2 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1950 USGS Kilgore quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Crookston West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Crookston between 1993 and 2020, burning about 397 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2012 | Natural | 30 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 August 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2020 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 July 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 July 1994 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge | BACKYARD |
| 18 April 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 April 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
31 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crookston in 31 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 17 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | Tornado (EF2) | Crookston | $25,000 | The tornado touched down briefly on the north side of the Bob Kruger ranch. The tornado lifted an old trailer home south southwestward about 20 yards and destroyed it. It also moved a hay baler 10 yards and turned it around. It snapped off numerous tree limbs, tore metal siding off a quonset, and destroyed a metal wind break. Numerous storm chasers captured the intense supercell on video. Chasers reported inflow winds into the supercell of up to 70 mph. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Crookston | $10,000 | Golf ball sized hail knocked windows out of cars. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Crookston | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crookston | $7,000 | Building damage occurred on the property from the thunderstorm winds. Also, damage occurred to a stretch of fence at a property on the east edge of the city of Crookston. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Crookston | $6,000 | Hail covered the ground 8 miles south of Crookston. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Crookston | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Crookston | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crookston | $2,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 MPH reported at this location with large tree limbs down. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crookston | - | No information available. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crookston | - | Public estimated 60 mph wind gusts. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crookston | - | Thunderstorm wind gust of 60 MPH reported. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crookston | - | A trained spotter estimated wind speeds of 60 mph in Crookston. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crookston | - | Law enforcement estimated wind gusts to 80 mph 10 miles south of Crookston. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crookston | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 MPH. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crookston | - | The public reported very strong winds. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crookston | - | A supercell storm evolved into a bow echo producing very strong winds across northeast Cherry County, particularly in the town of Valentine. The ASOS at the airport, on the south side of Valentine, recorded a wind gust of 69 kts (79 mph) at 8:44p.m. CDT, but a storm damage assessment estimated winds near 100 mph had hit the north side of town. Winds tore off part of the Cherry County Courthouse roof, destroyed a 150ft section of the Hometown Lumberyard storage building, severely damaged the United Methodist Church, damaged 15 homes, produced roof damage to the high school, and uprooted or broke off numerous large trees. The bow echo continued to move east and produced damage across Boyd, Keya Paha, Brown, Rock, and Holt counties. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Crookston | - | A weak tornado touched down in open rangeland and produced no damage. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Crookston | - | Spotter reported brief tornado touch down over open rangeland. |
| August 2022 | Hail | Crookston | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Crookston | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Crookston | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Crookston | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Crookston | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Crookston | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Crookston | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Crookston | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Crookston | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Crookston | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Crookston | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Crookston | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crookston | - | 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.
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 Crookston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1942741 | 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 828478. 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.




