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Welcome to Fort Crook ...

Fort Crook is located in Sarpy County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Fort Crook, you might consider that their post office opened in 1896.

A typical abbreviation for Fort Crook: Ft. Crook

Fort Crook is 970 feet [296 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Fort Crook lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Fort Crook: 402 & 531<3>

Communities near Fort Crook ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Fort Crook.

  • Omaha
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Omaha is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omaha
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 478,393 people
    • Omaha has also been known as:
    • Omaha City
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Omaha <4>
  • Council Bluffs
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Papillion
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • La Vista
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Ralston
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Plattsmouth
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Elkhorn
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Glenwood
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Gretna
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Carter Lake
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Carter Lake is located in Pottawattamie County (IA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carter Lake
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,793 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Carter Lake <4>

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Fort Crook. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Fort Crook.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Fort Crook. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fort Crook.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Fort Crook. See our Newspapers Page for Fort Crook.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Fort Crook ...

Looking for more information about Fort Crook? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Fort Crook, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Fort Crook.

Adding Fort Crook to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Fort Crook in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Fort Crook was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Fort Crook post office opened in 1896. The Fort Crook post office closed in 1965.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Fort Crook.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Nebraska's counties, including Sarpy, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Fort Crook - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 402 code has been Overlayed with the 531 area code. New phone numbers in the Fort Crook area will be assigned with one of these codes: 402 or 531. As a result, placing a call in the Fort Crook area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/