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Crooks, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Crooks City. It lies in ZIP code area 57020. The Survey maps it on the Crooks quadrangle. 1,362 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,588 feet above sea level.

Crooks within Minnehaha County

Population over time

2 figures

Crooks grew from 1,269 to 1,362 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
20101,269
20201,362+93 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

59 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Crooks between 1999 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Debris and open burning6
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
17 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionI 90
6 August 2020Natural1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionN. KIWANIS FIRE
19 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnehaha CountyI-29MM87
4 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnehaha CountyI-90 MM 398
11 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
3 June 2004Smokingunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
18 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnehaha CountyHORIZON DR FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Minnehaha County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Crooks: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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
Johnson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Minnehaha County

Storms near this place

43 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crooks in 43 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 22 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 1 flash 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
June 2014Flash FloodCrooks$50,000Heavy rain caused flash flooding of roads, putting several roads in the town of Crooks under water. Basement flooding was also reported.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindCrooks$8,000Several rows of shingles were blown off a house and garage by thunderstorm winds. | A large tree in the adjoining yard was also blown down. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
July 2019Tornado (EF0)Crooks$2,000The brief landspout touched down in a cornfield near the intersection of 467th Avenue and 258th Street. The tornado traveled generally toward the east southeast just on the north side of 258th Street, striking a farm outbuilding and removing several metal roof panels at the very end of its track.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCrooks-Thunderstorm wind gust to 59 mph was measured by a personal weather station 1 mile southwest of Crooks.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCrooks-A personal weather station measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 63 mph.
June 2014FloodCrooks-Repeated heavy rains caused moderate flooding of Willow Creek, flooding cropland and pastureland.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCrooks-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees and numerous branches blown down.
June 2014Heavy RainCrooks-Rainfall of 5.00 inches was measured.
February 2011FloodCrooks-A few days of melting snow in mild weather caused minor flooding of Willow Creek near Crooks, northwest of Sioux Falls. Mainly pastureland was affected. The creek crested at 1.9 feet above flood stage on February 18th..
March 2010FloodCrooks-Rapid melting of a heavy winter snowpack caused flooding of Skunk Creek and Willow Creek, with each cresting around 2 feet above flood stage near Hartford and Crooks. Fields along the creeks were flooded.
June 2010FloodCrooks-Recurring heavy rain cause minor flooding of Skunk and Willow Creeks, with each cresting at less than a foot above flood stage. A few small lowland areas sustained minor flooding.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCrooks-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a large tree blown down and blocking a highway.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCrooks-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a one foot diameter tree split.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCrooks-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few branches blown down. The winds were accompanied by dime size hail.
June 2010HailCrooks-Dime size hail was accompanied by damaging winds.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCrooks-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The amount of damage was not known.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCrooks-Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines, causing a power outage. The winds also caused tree damage, with several trees blown down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCrooks-Thunderstorm winds flattened corn crops.
August 2021HailCrooks-no account filed
June 2014HailCrooks-no account filed
June 2010HailCrooks-no account filed
July 2008HailCrooks-no account filed
June 2005HailCrooks-no account filed
July 2004HailCrooks-no account filed
July 2004HailCrooks-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCrooks-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCrooks-no account filed
May 2002HailCrooks-no account filed
April 2002HailCrooks-no account filed
April 2002HailCrooks-no account filed
April 2002HailCrooks-no account filed
April 2002HailCrooks-no account filed
April 2002HailCrooks-no account filed
June 2002HailCrooks-no account filed
June 2002HailCrooks-no account filed
June 2001HailCrooks-no account filed
June 2001HailCrooks-no account filed
June 2001HailCrooks-no account filed
June 2001HailCrooks-no account filed
May 2000HailCrooks-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCrooks-no account filed
August 1998HailCrooks-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindCrooks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Minnehaha 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
Johnsons Addition0.4 miles8
Morefield2.7 miles8
Ellis Corner4.5 miles9
Renner4.6 miles8
Swanson's Tracts4.6 miles9
Skyline Heights4.8 miles9
Lyons5.0 miles8
Sorum Addition5.3 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 CrooksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2656672The 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 1265631. 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.