Brooksville, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Benevolence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39886. It stands on Soapstone Branch. The Survey maps it on the Brooksville quadrangle.

Brooksville within Randolph 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.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Brooksville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Brooksville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 243 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 3 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	48
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1

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
27 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-RANDOLPH-001
29 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-RANDOLPH-003
25 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-WEBSTER-004
2 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-RANDOLPH-002
16 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021RANDOLPH003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooksville in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	$25,000	Severe thunderstorm winds downed trees along Georgia Highway 41 near Brooksvile. Minor flooding reported.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooksville	-	A tree was blown down along Brooksville Road.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Water Pipe	1.8 miles	7
Gore	4.2 miles	7
Benevolence	4.2 miles	7
Wades	5.6 miles	7
Pumpkintown	7.3 miles	7
Pachitla	7.7 miles	7
Shellman	8.4 miles	7
Cuthbert	10.0 miles	7

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 Brooksville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888633	The 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 354867. 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.