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Brooksville, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Brooksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35031. It lies near Rocky Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Brooksville quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Brooksville within Blount County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

98 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Brooksville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 796 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200905-1
4 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-8
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brooksville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
D and R PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Blount County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooksville in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$10,000Trees and power lines were down in the Brooksville area according to the Blount County Emergency Management Agency. Several trees were downed in the Hayden area.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$1,000A few trees were downed in the Blountsville, Brookville, and Altoona areas of Blount County.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindBrooksville-Several trees uprooted along Highway 278 in the town of Brooksville.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBrooksville-Trees blocking roadway at the intersection of Highway 278 and Highway 79.
April 1999HailBrooksville-Quarter sized hail fell near Brooksville.

Every storm recorded in Blount County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bright Star2.4 miles23
Summit3.1 miles23
Rock Springs3.3 miles19
Craig (historical)3.4 miles22
Birdie3.5 miles19
McLarty4.0 miles23
Fowler (historical)4.1 miles23
Liberty4.3 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BrooksvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4975133The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 114969. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.