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Brookridge, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Spring Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34613. The Survey maps it on the Brooksville quadrangle. 4,658 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 62 feet above sea level.

Brookridge within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brookridge, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Brookridge, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Brookridge grew from 4,420 to 4,658 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
20104,420
20204,658+238 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

437 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 437 fires within 5 miles of Brookridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,418 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 66 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
Railroad operations and maintenance97
Equipment and vehicle use86
Arson/incendiarism66
Debris and open burning52
Misuse of fire by a minor45
Natural39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Fireworks1
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 1992Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDRY CREEK/1187
22 September 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2008Debris and open burning1.5 acresFlorida Forest Service27/AMITY ROAD FIRE/0936
17 September 1997Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 1994Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2004Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHEXUM FIRE/0734

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Brookridge: 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Brooksville Gay QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brooksville Lime KilnCalciumPlant
Dot Dade City - Mason-Smith MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
Florida Crushed Stone - Greg MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Hernando 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
Norman0.4 miles16
Wiscon1.7 miles16
High Point1.8 miles14
Camps4.3 miles16
North Brooksville4.7 miles16
Weeki Wachee4.9 miles14
South Brooksville4.9 miles16
Powell5.3 miles13

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 BrookridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2423539The 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 1867119. 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.