Official Name: | Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire |
Settlement Type: | Township |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | New Hampshire |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Coös |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 21.2 |
Area Land Km2: | 21.2 |
Area Water Km2: | 0 |
Area Water Percent: | 0 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 0 |
Timezone: | Eastern |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | Eastern |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 44.2614°N -71.4025°W |
Elevation M: | 567 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
Area Code: | 603 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 33-007-16100 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Crawford's Purchase is a township in Coös County, New Hampshire, United States. The purchase lies entirely within the White Mountain National Forest. As of the 2020 census, the purchase had a population of zero.[2]
In New Hampshire, locations, grants, townships (which are different from towns), and purchases are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part of any town and have limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited).
Crawford's Purchase was granted by commissioner James Willey to Thomas Abbott, Nathaniel Abbott and Ethan Allen Crawford in 1834 for $8,000, and contained about 15712acres.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the purchase has a total area of 21.2sqkm, all land, except for streams such as the Ammonoosuc River, which flows across the purchase from east to west. The highest point is 2890feet above sea level, on the southern slopes of the Dartmouth Range, at the northern corner of the purchase boundary.
As of the 2020 census,[2] there were no people living in the purchase.