Brooker, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Denton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31539. The Survey maps it on the Denton quadrangle.

Brooker within Jeff Davis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Denton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

386 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 386 fires within 5 miles of Brooker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,207 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 18 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 burning	263
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Natural	27
Arson/incendiarism	18
Smoking	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-JEFF DAVIS-008
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JEFF DAVIS014
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2020	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021JEFF DAVIS008
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JEFF DAVIS023
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jeff Davis 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 occurrence. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Alluvium

Every working recorded in Jeff Davis County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooker in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooker	-	Storms produced widespread trees down and power lines down across the county. Some local roads were flooded.
May 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Brooker	-	Three older outbuildings were destroyed and three others were damaged along the tornado path. There were several trees that were uprooted or that had snapped tree trunks.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooker	-	A tree was blown down on a home off of Taylor Road with minor damage to the house.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooker	-	A power line was blown down and sparked a fire about 10 miles south-southwest of Hazelhurst. Trees were also blown down along Highway 107.

Every storm recorded in Jeff Davis 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Denton	1.8 miles	8
Goldsmith (historical)	2.5 miles	8
Snipesville	3.6 miles	8
Roper	4.8 miles	8
Ellis (historical)	5.0 miles	8
Kirkland	5.4 miles	8
Bingham (historical)	6.6 miles	8
Satilla	6.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331242. 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.