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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.

Crookston within Cherry County

Population over time

2 figures

Crookston 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.

YearPeople Change
201069
202071+2 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

11 since 1993

Regional 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
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
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
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2012Natural30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2017Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2020Natural2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2008Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 July 1994Natural1.0 acresFort Niobrara National Wildlife RefugeBACKYARD
18 April 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 April 2010Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Cherry County

Storms near this place

31 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009Tornado (EF2)Crookston$25,000The 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 2013HailCrookston$10,000Golf ball sized hail knocked windows out of cars.
July 2009HailCrookston$10,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCrookston$7,000Building 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 2002HailCrookston$6,000Hail covered the ground 8 miles south of Crookston.
July 2003HailCrookston$5,000no account filed
July 2001HailCrookston$5,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCrookston$2,000Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 MPH reported at this location with large tree limbs down.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCrookston-No information available.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCrookston-Public estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCrookston-Thunderstorm wind gust of 60 MPH reported.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCrookston-A trained spotter estimated wind speeds of 60 mph in Crookston.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCrookston-Law enforcement estimated wind gusts to 80 mph 10 miles south of Crookston.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindCrookston-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 MPH.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCrookston-The public reported very strong winds.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCrookston-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 2003Tornado (F0)Crookston-A weak tornado touched down in open rangeland and produced no damage.
June 1999Tornado (F0)Crookston-Spotter reported brief tornado touch down over open rangeland.
August 2022HailCrookston-no account filed
August 2021HailCrookston-no account filed
September 2019HailCrookston-no account filed
July 2016HailCrookston-no account filed
August 2015HailCrookston-no account filed
June 2014HailCrookston-no account filed
August 2013HailCrookston-no account filed
August 2013HailCrookston-no account filed
July 2013HailCrookston-no account filed
June 2011HailCrookston-no account filed
May 2010HailCrookston-no account filed
June 2008HailCrookston-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCrookston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherry 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
Kilgore10.8 miles9
Valentine11.3 miles10
Thatcher17.4 miles10
Nenzel18.6 miles9
Simeon21.8 miles9
Arabia24.3 miles8
Cody26.1 miles9
Sparks26.3 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 CrookstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1942741The 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.