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Brookside, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Harlan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40831. It stands on Ages Creek. The Survey maps it on the Evarts quadrangle. It stands 1,257 feet above sea level.

Brookside within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

148 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Brookside between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,115 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 28 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 burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism28
Recreation and ceremony22
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPINE BRANCH FIRE
27 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKILDAV FIR
25 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Brookside: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Harlan MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pine Mountain Sandstone OutcropSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Harlan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookside in 3 storm reports in 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindBrookside$3,000Trees were blown down and roofing material was removed from a structure in the Brookside community.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBrookside$200The Harlan County Highway Department reported that thunderstorm winds had blown down a tree onto KY-38 near Brookside.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBrookside-A tree was blown down onto KY-38 near Ages.

Every storm recorded in Harlan 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
Ages0.2 miles24
Tin Can Alley (historical)0.2 miles25
Coxton1.1 miles25
Blackjoe1.7 miles25
Verda1.8 miles24
Ten Spot2.0 miles24
Golden Ash2.2 miles25
Kildav2.3 miles24

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 BrooksideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4975091The 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 487970. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.