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Brookston, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47923. The Survey maps it on the Brookston quadrangle. 1,631 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Brookston within White County

Population over time

2 figures

Brookston grew from 1,554 to 1,631 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
20101,554
20201,631+77 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Storms near this place

27 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookston in 27 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBrookston$8,000Several trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBrookston$5,000Trees and powerlines down in Brookston reported by spotters.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBrookston$2,000Power lines and poles were blown down.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBrookston$1,000Trees were blown down between Buffalo and Burnettsville. Power lines were blown down at Brookston.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBrookston-EM reported downed trees, limbs, and power lines in town.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBrookston-WLFI relayed reports of lots of trees and limbs downed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBrookston-Emergency management officials reported several trees down in the area.
September 2015HailBrookston-A trained spotter reported nickel to quarter sized hail.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindBrookston-A trained spotter reported a 12 to 14 inch diameter tree was blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBrookston-Local television stations reported trees and tree limbs down with some minor street flooding.
September 2005Flash FloodBrookston-Water was reported flowing over several county roads, making some of these impassable.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindBrookston-Emergency management reported 25 to 30 trees down east of Brookston.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBrookston-Emergency management reported trees down throughout the southern half of the county.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBrookston-2 large trees were reported to have been blown down west of Brookston.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBrookston-Trees were reported blown down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBrookston-Several trees down.
March 2006HailBrookston-no account filed
March 2006HailBrookston-no account filed
April 2006HailBrookston-no account filed
May 2004HailBrookston-no account filed
May 2004HailBrookston-no account filed
April 2002HailBrookston-no account filed
April 2001HailBrookston-no account filed
April 2000HailBrookston-no account filed
April 2000HailBrookston-no account filed
April 2000HailBrookston-no account filed
September 1999HailBrookston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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
Chalmers4.2 miles9
Springboro4.9 miles9
Badger Grove5.3 miles9
Smithson7.9 miles9
Round Grove8.7 miles8
Cedar Point9.3 miles9
Golden Hill9.3 miles9
Reynolds10.1 miles9

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 BrookstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2284342The 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 431585. 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.