Crider is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Caldwell County,

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, United States. The community was named Crider in the 1830s, after the Crider clan of early settlers, originally from Virginia. On May 26, 2024, an

EF3 tornado The Enhanced Fujita scale (abbreviated EF-Scale) is a scale that rates tornado intensity based on the severity of the damage a tornado causes. It is used in the United States and France, among other countries. The EF scale is also unofficially ...

hit the community directly.

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Unincorporated communities in Caldwell County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{CaldwellCountyKY-geo-stub