during its day as an incorporated settlement, crichton had three grain elevators all have been torn down, a school that has been moved to a nearby bible camp, a café and pool hall, a garage that still stand on main street, boarding house, a blacksmith shop, lumberyard, post office, livery barn, water tower torn down in the 1960s, and a large warehouse attached to the general store. there was even a golf course and tennis courts built for the community, as well as a baseball diamond near the school site. today crichton has one resident, and a few scattered buildings sitting abandoned.