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Camp Crook, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Camp Crook town. It lies in ZIP code area 57724. It lies near Hoag Coal Mine Draw. The Survey maps it on the Camp Crook quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,120 feet above sea level.

Camp Crook within Harding County

On record in Camp Crook

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

Camp Crook fell from 63 to 60 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
201063
202060-3 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Camp Crook between 1998 and 2016, burning about 6,968 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
30 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRapid City Fire Department98-3262
17 September 2000Natural1,000 acresPrairie City Volunteer Fire DepartmentCAMP CROOK
8 August 2011Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCAMP CROOK
30 August 2002Natural2.0 acresCamp Crook Volunteer Fire DepartmentCATRON RANCH
30 August 2002Natural3.0 acresCamp Crook Volunteer Fire DepartmentCATRON
15 August 2005Natural1.0 acresMiles City Field OfficeJOHN DEERE
1 August 2000Natural10 acresCamp Crook Volunteer Fire DepartmentIRON MOUNTAIN RANCH
1 August 2000Natural10 acresCamp Crook Volunteer Fire DepartmentCATRON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harding County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Camp Crook: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Davis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Raymond PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Harding County

Storms near this place

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp Crook in 53 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 36 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flood. 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 2012HailCamp Crook$50,000no account filed
July 2011HailCamp Crook$10,000Softball sized hail fell.
July 2011HailCamp Crook$10,000no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindCamp Crook$5,000Wind-driven hail broke all the windows of a house.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCamp Crook$5,000The combination of hail and wind caused minor property damage.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCamp Crook$1,000Strong wind gusts damaged a fence and blew down many tree branches.
June 1994HailCamp Crook$500Minor window damage.
June 2025HailCamp Crook-Public reported hail size, estimated.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCamp Crook-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCamp Crook-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
April 2018FloodCamp Crook-Minor flooding of agricultural land occurred along the Little Missouri River.
June 2018Tornado (EF3)Camp Crook-The tornado started south of Capitol, Montana and crossed the state line into South Dakota approximately ten miles south-southwest of Camp Crook. The tornado produced considerable tree and structural damage west of South Camp Crook Road. It also lifted and destroyed some farm machinery, including a five-ton tractor that was found a few miles northwest in Montana. East of Camp Crook Road, a large farm outbuilding was destroyed and its foundation was extracted from the ground and broken apart. The tornado was rated an EF-3 with peak wind speeds estimated around 136 mph.
August 2016HailCamp Crook-Wind gusts to 50 mph also accompanied the storm.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCamp Crook-Wind gusts were estimated around 65 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCamp Crook-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindCamp Crook-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2012HailCamp Crook-Hail accumulated two to three inches deep.
March 2009FloodCamp Crook-Minor flooding occurred along the Little Missouri River. The river gauge at Camp Crook crested at 14.84 feet, which is 2.84 ft above flood stage.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCamp Crook-3-4 inch branches broken off trees.
June 2023HailCamp Crook-no account filed
June 2023HailCamp Crook-no account filed
May 2020HailCamp Crook-no account filed
May 2020HailCamp Crook-no account filed
May 2020HailCamp Crook-no account filed
July 2020HailCamp Crook-no account filed
July 2020HailCamp Crook-no account filed
July 2020HailCamp Crook-no account filed
June 2020HailCamp Crook-no account filed
June 2020HailCamp Crook-no account filed
August 2016HailCamp Crook-no account filed
August 2014HailCamp Crook-no account filed
June 2014HailCamp Crook-no account filed
May 2013HailCamp Crook-no account filed
May 2013HailCamp Crook-no account filed
May 2013HailCamp Crook-no account filed
May 2013HailCamp Crook-no account filed
June 2012HailCamp Crook-no account filed
August 2010HailCamp Crook-no account filed
July 2008HailCamp Crook-no account filed
August 2007HailCamp Crook-no account filed
April 2006HailCamp Crook-no account filed
April 2006HailCamp Crook-no account filed
June 2005HailCamp Crook-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCamp Crook-no account filed
July 2005Tornado (F0)Camp Crook-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCamp Crook-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCamp Crook-no account filed
July 2001HailCamp Crook-no account filed
July 2001HailCamp Crook-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCamp Crook-no account filed
June 2000HailCamp Crook-no account filed
August 2000HailCamp Crook-no account filed
June 1999HailCamp Crook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harding 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
Harding12.9 miles7
Gustave18.6 miles6
Buffalo22.8 miles6
Ladner23.2 miles6
Karinen28.9 miles6
Redig29.7 miles6
Ludlow37.3 miles8
Reva47.2 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 Camp CrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q651885The 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 1254208. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.