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Brooklyn, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Welchs Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42261. It stands on Phelps Creek. The Survey maps it on the Welchs Creek quadrangle.

Brooklyn within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Brooklyn between 2001 and 2012, burning about 172 acres in total. None 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 burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
19 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryBLADDER FI
12 April 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2001Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2001Debris and open burning100 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooklyn in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-A tree was down on Brooklyn Chapel Road.
April 2025Flash FloodBrooklyn-Water was flowing over Brooklyn Love Road.
May 2024HailBrooklyn-Quarter sized hail was observed in Butler County.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-Trees were blown down along Brownsville Road.
July 2016Flash FloodBrooklyn-Excessive rainfall resulted in flooded and impassable roadways near the intersection of Love Brooklyn and Brooklyn roads.
April 2011Flash FloodBrooklyn-Broadcast media relayed a report from a viewer of 12 to 18 inches of water covering portions of KY 340 near Brooklyn.

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Temple View2.0 miles11
Grancer2.1 miles11
Huldeville2.3 miles11
Love2.6 miles11
Casey3.5 miles11
Jetson3.7 miles14
Centhro (historical)3.7 miles11
Monford3.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507591. 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.