BlockBrook, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Iroquois Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47922. The Survey maps it on the Goodland quadrangle. 939 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.
On record in Brook
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 1 record
George Ade Houselisted 1976
Population over time
2 figuresBrook fell from 997 to 939 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 997 | |
| 2020 | 939 | -58 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
13 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brook in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brook | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brook | - | A private weather station measured a wind gust to 58 mph west of Brook. |
| February 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Brook | - | Video was shared of a funnel cloud extending half way to the ground west of Brook. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brook | - | Tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brook | - | A large tree was broken halfway up and was leaning on a garage. Power lines were also blown down. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brook | - | A tree was blown down onto Road S 50 E. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brook | - | Part of a roof of a large commercial building was blown off. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Brook | - | The tornado began about 1 1/2 miles west of Brook just south of highway 16, and it continued moving east northeast for 4 1/2 miles before ending near the Iroquois River, north of Foresman. The tornado was about 20 yards wide. It briefly produced F1 damage with estimated winds of 70 to 90 mph on the west side of Brook where large trees were damaged and there was roof damage to homes. The tornado only produced minor damage to roofs as it went through the center of the business district. Tree limbs were also knocked down on the northeast side of town. East of Brook, on County Road 300 East, a machine shed was destroyed and part of the roof was taken off another shed. A large tree was taken down near State Road 55. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brook | - | Numerous trees blown down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brook | - | Trees and power lines blown down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brook | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brook | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Brook | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foresman | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Beaver City | 3.9 miles | 8 | |
| Ade | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Percy Junction | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Mount Ayr | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Newton | 7.0 miles | 9 | |
| Perkins | 7.0 miles | 9 | |
| Morocco | 7.3 miles | 8 |
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 Brook | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1854689 | 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 431563. 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.
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.