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Brooksville, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Brooksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41004. The Survey maps it on the Brooksville quadrangle. 654 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Brooksville within Bracken County

On record in Brooksville

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Brooksville grew from 642 to 654 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
2010642
2020654+12 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Wayne Holton House, Salem Ridge Road & KY State Route 1159, Brooksville, Bracken County, KY
Wayne Holton House, Salem Ridge Road & KY State Route 1159, Brooksville, Bracken County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Rock Spring House, South of Salem Road/Locust Creek on Route KY 1159, Brooksville, Bracken County, KY
Rock Spring House, South of Salem Road/Locust Creek on Route KY 1159, Brooksville, Bracken County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brooksville in 1999, burning about 15 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning1

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
28 March 1999Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bracken County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooksville in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 22 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 3 injuries. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindBrooksville2 killed, 3 hurt, $100,000Thunderstorm winds blew over a mobile home killing 2 and injuring 3 people. Another mobile home was damaged and trees were knocked down.
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Brooksville$750,000The tornado began along Brooksville-Powersville Road west of Hamilton Road. Tree damage was observed in the area along with some minor damage to a home east of Hamilton Road. Several barns were heavily damaged or destroyed in the area. Additional observed damage was located on Michaels Lane and McNamara Lane where several barns were damaged. The tornado continued eastward, crossing Brooksville-Germantown Road, causing damage to more barns, outbuildings, and trees. Based on radar data and observed damage provided by the public on social media, it is believe the tornado dissipated north of Brooksville-Germantown Road west of Locust Creek.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$30,000Significant property damage was reported on Delaney Road. This included an outbuilding destroyed, a porch damaged, loss of roofing shingles and trees and large limbs knocked down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$15,000A mobile home was moved onto Hamilton Road.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$15,000A barn was blown over along State Route 22 in the eastern part of the county.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$10,000Two utility poles were snapped off and a tree fell on electric lines due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$8,000Multiple trees were knocked down in the Brookville area, including one in a house on Woodward Ave.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$8,000A car port was blown down at a residence.
November 2010Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$6,000A carport was destroyed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$6,000Trees and power lines were downed across the county.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$5,000Several trees were downed in the Brooksville area.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$5,000Several trees were knocked down throughout the county. A barn was damaged near the intersection of Highway 18 and Hamilton Road.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$5,000Trees downed across several roads.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$5,000Numerous trees knocked down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$4,000Several trees were knocked down on Brooksville-Germantown Road.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$3,000A tobacco barn was destroyed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$3,000Several trees were downed.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$3,000Trees were knocked down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$3,000Several power poles and a tree were downed.
May 2011FloodBrooksville$2,000Roads were closed due to high water.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$2,000Large limbs were knocked down.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$1,000A tree was downed onto a road.
April 2014FloodBrooksville-Water several feet deep from an overflowing creek was reported over Jett Road due to heavy rain. A few other roads in the county also were reported to have high water over them.
July 1994HailBrooksville-Tobacco crops flattened East of Augusta. Numerous reports of trees and power lines downed.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindBrooksville-no account filed
May 2022HailBrooksville-no account filed
June 2009HailBrooksville-no account filed
January 2005Thunderstorm WindBrooksville-no account filed
May 2003HailBrooksville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bracken 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
Asbury (historical)1.6 miles8
Powersville3.0 miles8
Bladeston3.1 miles8
Cumminsville3.2 miles8
Chatham3.4 miles8
Parina (historical)3.7 miles8
Woolcott3.9 miles8
Gertrude4.0 miles8

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 BrooksvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2112519The 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 487972. 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.