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Brooklet, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Brooklet census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30415. The Survey maps it on the Brooklet quadrangle. 1,704 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 151 feet above sea level.

Brooklet within Bulloch County

Population over time

2 figures

Brooklet grew from 1,395 to 1,704 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
20101,395
20201,704+309 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Brooklet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 776 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 21 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 burning125
Arson/incendiarism21
Natural16
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2

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 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BULLOCH-012
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-BULLOCH-009
25 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-BULLOCH-009
22 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BULLOCH011
17 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bulloch County

Storms near this place

27 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooklet in 27 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 20 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindBrooklet$15,000Broadcast Media relayed a report of trees down and several roofs of homes damaged in the town of Brooklet, Georgia.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBrooklet$4,250Law enforcement reported a power line down and a metal roof blown onto Highway 80 just east of Brooklet.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBrooklet$1,000The Bulloch County 911 Call Center reported a large tree down on transmission lines|near the intersection of East Highway 80 and Robertson Road due to thunderstorm outflow and heavy rainfall.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBrooklet$1,000The police reported 1 tree down on Joiner Road.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBrooklet$500Six to eight inch diameter tree limbs were reported down in the Brooklet city limits.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBrooklet$500One tree was reported down on Railroad Street in Brooklet, GA.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-A Bulloch County emergency manager reported multiple trees down in Brooklet, GA.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-The NWS office in Peachtree City relayed multiple reports of wind damage around Brooklet. Trees and power lines were reported down along Brooklet-Denmark Road at Brannen Pond Connector. Additionally, power lines were reported down and a tree was down on a house along the 500 block of Railroad Street. The downed power lines caused a house fire in this location.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-The Bulloch County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Brooklet-Leefield Road.
June 2020HailBrooklet-Broadcast media reported penny size hail.
July 2019HailBrooklet-Quarter sized hail reported in Brooklet.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-The Bulloch County 911 Call Center reported a tree down along U.S. Highway 80 just east of Brooklet.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-The Bulloch County 911 Call Center reported a tree and a power line blown down along West Lee Street in Brooklet.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-The Bulloch County 911 Call Center reported a total of three trees down near Highway 80 in Statesboro, including one on Burkhalter Road, one on North Parker Avenue and one on Cambridge Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-The Bulloch County 911 Call Center reported trees down in and around Brooklet.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-A spotter reported two trees down and shingles torn off a roof near the intersection of Burkhalter Road and Five Chop Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-A trained spotter reported 2 trees down.
March 2011HailBrooklet-Law Enforcement reported quarter size hail in Brooklet, Georgia.
March 2011HailBrooklet-A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail covering the ground in Brooklet, Georgia.
September 2009HailBrooklet-The Bulloch County Warning Point reported quarter size hail in Brooklet, Georgia.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-Shingles blown off roof of house, top of tree snapped off.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-Several trees were down.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-Several trees, large limbs, and power lines were down.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-Several large limbs down and damage to a detached garage.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBrooklet-Trees down.
May 2006HailBrooklet-no account filed
September 2002Flash FloodBrooklet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bulloch 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
Truckers2.3 miles14
Grimshaw2.3 miles14
Leefield3.7 miles14
Mill Creek (historical)4.0 miles14
Arcola4.1 miles14
Pretoria4.1 miles14
Emit4.8 miles14
Grove Lakes South4.9 miles14

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 BrookletAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2133259The 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 311827. 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.

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.