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.
Population over time
2 figuresBrookston 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,554 | |
| 2020 | 1,631 | +77 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Brookston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
27 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | $8,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | $5,000 | Trees and powerlines down in Brookston reported by spotters. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | $2,000 | Power lines and poles were blown down. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | $1,000 | Trees were blown down between Buffalo and Burnettsville. Power lines were blown down at Brookston. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | - | EM reported downed trees, limbs, and power lines in town. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | - | WLFI relayed reports of lots of trees and limbs downed. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | - | Emergency management officials reported several trees down in the area. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Brookston | - | A trained spotter reported nickel to quarter sized hail. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | - | A trained spotter reported a 12 to 14 inch diameter tree was blown down. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | - | Local television stations reported trees and tree limbs down with some minor street flooding. |
| September 2005 | Flash Flood | Brookston | - | Water was reported flowing over several county roads, making some of these impassable. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | - | Emergency management reported 25 to 30 trees down east of Brookston. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | - | Emergency management reported trees down throughout the southern half of the county. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | - | 2 large trees were reported to have been blown down west of Brookston. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | - | Trees were reported blown down. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookston | - | Several trees down. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Brookston | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Brookston | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chalmers | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Springboro | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Badger Grove | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Smithson | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Round Grove | 8.7 miles | 8 | |
| Cedar Point | 9.3 miles | 9 | |
| Golden Hill | 9.3 miles | 9 | |
| Reynolds | 10.1 miles | 9 |
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 Brookston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2284342 | 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 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.




