Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire
township in Coös County, New Hampshire
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.
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).
History
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 15,712 acres (63.58 km2).
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the purchase has a total area of 8.2 square miles (21.2 km2), all land, except for streams such as the Ammonoosuc River, which flows across the purchase from east to west. The highest point is 2,890 feet (880 m) above sea level, on the southern slopes of the Dartmouth Range, at the northern corner of the purchase boundary.
Adjacent municipalities
Low and Burbank's Grant (north)
Chandler's Purchase (northeast)
Bean's Grant (east)
Carroll (west)
Demographics
As of the 2020 census, there were no people living in the purchase.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire” as township in Coös County, New Hampshire. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as township in Coös County, New Hampshire. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5182797. Authority coordinates are 44.267, -71.399. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 1834.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire primary sources, Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire archive and Crawford's research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire”?
- Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
- What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.