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Brooklyn, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Richland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31825. The Survey maps it on the Brooklyn quadrangle.

Brooklyn within Stewart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Brooklyn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 777 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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 burning92
Arson/incendiarism22
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2

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 1997Arson/incendiarism80 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021STEWART004
30 September 2019Natural7.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020STEWART003
22 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-STEWART-006
19 September 1997Arson/incendiarism9.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Smoking14 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stewart County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooklyn in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2006: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$1,000Georgia Power reported that a power line was down near Brooklyn.
May 2006HailBrooklyn-The public reported nickel-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Stewart 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
Shady Grove1.0 miles7
Slaughter Creek (historical)1.6 miles7
Green Hill (historical)4.9 miles12
Louvale6.2 miles12
Richland6.3 miles8
Louvale Station6.9 miles12
Charles7.2 miles12
Randall7.4 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 354865. 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.