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Brooklyn, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bear Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52211. It stands on Stony Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brooklyn quadrangle. 1,502 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Brooklyn within Poweshiek County

On record in Brooklyn

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Brooklyn grew from 1,468 to 1,502 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
20101,468
20201,502+34 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brooklyn in 2011, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources400TH ST. AND HWY 21, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Poweshiek County

Storms near this place

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooklyn in 43 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 24 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 5 heavy rain, 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 1998Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$150,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$75,000Many trees and tree limbs down across the city. Some trees on roofs.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$75,000no account filed
July 2010Flash FloodBrooklyn$50,000Three feet of standing water was observed in yards, with 2.5 feet of flowing water in another yard along the side of a shed. Ten inches of flowing water was flowing down the alley. Three and one half inches of rain fell in a short time.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$50,000no account filed
April 2002HailBrooklyn$40,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$25,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$20,000Many branches were downed. A gazebo was blown apart and debris strewn along a southwest to northeast path for about 75 feet. Some debris embedded 4 to 6 inches into the ground.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$15,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$10,000Measured at the Brooklyn Schoolnet site.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$10,000Tree damage was reported with winds estimated near 75 MPH.
April 2003HailBrooklyn$10,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
May 2011HailBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
May 2011HailBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
March 2005HailBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
November 2000Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$5,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$3,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$3,000no account filed
July 2001HailBrooklyn$3,000no account filed
July 2000HailBrooklyn$3,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$1,000Winds of 60 MPH blew down small branches.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$1,000Measured at the Brooklyn Schoolnet site.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$1,000no account filed
September 2000HailBrooklyn$1,000no account filed
August 2021Funnel CloudBrooklyn-Public report of funnel cloud spotted along Interstate 80 looking south.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-Law enforcement reported damage to power lines in the area.
May 2018Heavy RainBrooklyn-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.08 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-Emergency manager reported estimated 60 to 65 mph winds at Brooklyn exit on I-80.
April 2013Heavy RainBrooklyn-Rainfall 1.26 inches.
April 2013Heavy RainBrooklyn-Rainfall of 3.32 inches in the past 24 hours.
June 2009Heavy RainBrooklyn-Water was briefly onto Highway F29 from a farm field. Water was shallow, of hydroplane depth.
August 2009Heavy RainBrooklyn-Rainfall amount of 3.19 inches was reported.
May 2011HailBrooklyn-no account filed
April 2010HailBrooklyn-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-no account filed
April 2003HailBrooklyn-no account filed
July 2000HailBrooklyn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Poweshiek 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
Carnforth5.1 miles8
Holiday Lake6.0 miles8
Malcom6.3 miles8
Hartwick6.5 miles8
Guernsey8.0 miles8
Sheridan10.4 miles8
Ewart10.8 miles8
Montezuma11.1 miles8

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 BrooklynAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1944898The 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 454842. 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.