I think this is one of the most unusual-looking school buildings I’ve seen. Note the water well hand pump to the left of the building.
Crook, which is in Logan County, sits in the northeast corner of the state. If you were to take I-76 East from Crook, driving past Sedgwick, Ovid and Julesburg, in 66 miles you would reach Ogallala, Nebraska. In 2021, about 113 people lived in Crook.
Crook is named for General George Crook, officer during the Civil War and the Indian Wars.
REFERENCES:
- “Crook, Colorado Population 2021” at https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/crook-co-population
- Wikipedia.org at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crook,_Colorado
