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Brooker, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Brooker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32622. It stands on Braggs Branch. The Survey maps it on the Brooker quadrangle. 322 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 128 feet above sea level.

Brooker within Bradford County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brooker, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Brooker, surveyed 1954

Population over time

2 figures

Brooker fell from 338 to 322 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010338
2020322-16 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Brooker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 620 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 14 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 burning33
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony3
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
6 September 2020Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSR 235 (01)
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHICK(01)
22 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service161 ST (04)
18 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA -4919 FIRE
28 August 2020Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSW 151ST ST (04)
2 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFARM(01)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bradford 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 Brooker: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium. 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
Brooker-DukesPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumProspect1960

Every working recorded in Bradford County

Storms near this place

15 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooker in 15 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2017LightningBrooker$100,000A structure fire due to lightning occurred during the pre-dawn hours. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBrooker-A tree was uprooted and another was snapped in half from thunderstorm winds. The time and location was based on radar.
June 2022Heavy RainBrooker-A public weather station just east of SW 180th avenue and west of state road 231, measured 3.38 inches of rainfall as of 5 am EDT. Rainfall began around 3 am EDT. A flood warning was in effect.
March 2021Heavy RainBrooker-A weather station measured 3.47 inches since midnight.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBrooker-Severe thunderstorm winds downed a dozen large oak trees, flipped a piece of farm equipment, and blew shingles off of a home. The downburst impacted a 1500 x 1500 ft area. The time of damage was based on radar.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindBrooker-A tree was blown down on Eden Loop Church Road in Brooker.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBrooker-Numerous trees were blown down across the county. The time of damage was based on radar.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBrooker-Several trees were blown down in Brooker. Trees fell on two mobile homes, which tore the roof off of one of the homes. The cost of damage was unknown.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBrooker-Trees were blown down on County Road 235. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2012HailBrooker-Nickel size hail was observed. The time of the event was based on radar.
October 2009Funnel CloudBrooker-The emergency manager relayed several reports of a funnel cloud in the Brooker vicinity along County Road 231. A few unconfirmed reports stated touchdown, but no damage was observed.
March 2003HailBrooker-Reported as ping pong ball sized hail.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindBrooker-Numerous trees down.
March 2005HailBrooker-no account filed
May 2002HailBrooker-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bradford 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
Clayno4.5 miles11
New River6.1 miles11
Graham6.4 miles15
Sampson6.9 miles16
Hampton Beach8.9 miles15
Hampton10.8 miles15
Pleasant Grove11.7 miles16
Starke12.4 miles17

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 BrookerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q928956The 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 279434. 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.