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Welcome to Crook City ...

Crook City is located in Lawrence County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Crook City, you might consider that their post office opened in 1877.

Crook City is 3,710 feet [1,131 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Crook City is about ¾ mile [or ~1¼ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: Crook City lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Crook City: 605

Communities Also Named Crook City ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Crook City - it's located in Arizona.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Crook City.

Communities near Crook City ...

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

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 Crook City. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Crook City.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Crook City. 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 Crook City.

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Crook City ...

Looking for more information about Crook City? 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 Crook City, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Crook City.

Adding Crook City to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Crook City 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 Crook City was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Crook City post office opened in 1877. The Crook City post office closed in 1895.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of South Dakota's counties, including Lawrence, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Crook City - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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/