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Brooks, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Esparto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95606. It stands on Brooks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brooks quadrangle. 31 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

Brooks within Yolo County

Then and now

1924 to 1972

The same ground, surveyed 48 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brooks, surveyed 1972
Topographic sheet of Brooks, surveyed 1924

On record in Brooks

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Brooks between 1992 and 2018, burning about 3,139 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning12
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionCAPAY
9 September 1999Natural300 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitLOOKOUT
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHWY 16 CAPAY
5 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitORCHARD
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use40 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSIXTEEN
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCAPAY #3
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCAPAY #1
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCAPAY #4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yolo 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 Brooks: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. 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
Unnamed LocationCalciumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Yolo 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
Tancred1.8 miles20
Cadenasso2.1 miles20
Capay5.8 miles23
Guinda6.5 miles20
Country Villa Estates7.5 miles23
Esparto7.7 miles23
Madison10.4 miles22
Cottonwood11.0 miles22

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 BrooksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4974952The 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 1658143. 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.