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.
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
Walcott Covered Bridgelisted 1975
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Rock Spring House, South of Salem Road/Locust Creek on Route KY 1159, Brooksvillefederal building survey, 5 photographs
- Wayne Holton House, Salem Ridge Road & KY State Route 1159, Brooksvillefederal building survey, 12 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresBrooksville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 642 | |
| 2020 | 654 | +12 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Brooksville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
1 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | 2 killed, 3 hurt, $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew over a mobile home killing 2 and injuring 3 people. Another mobile home was damaged and trees were knocked down. |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Brooksville | $750,000 | The 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $30,000 | Significant 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $15,000 | A mobile home was moved onto Hamilton Road. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $15,000 | A barn was blown over along State Route 22 in the eastern part of the county. |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $10,000 | Two utility poles were snapped off and a tree fell on electric lines due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $8,000 | Multiple trees were knocked down in the Brookville area, including one in a house on Woodward Ave. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $8,000 | A car port was blown down at a residence. |
| November 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $6,000 | A carport was destroyed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $6,000 | Trees and power lines were downed across the county. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $5,000 | Several trees were downed in the Brooksville area. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $5,000 | Several trees were knocked down throughout the county. A barn was damaged near the intersection of Highway 18 and Hamilton Road. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $5,000 | Trees downed across several roads. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $5,000 | Numerous trees knocked down. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $4,000 | Several trees were knocked down on Brooksville-Germantown Road. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $3,000 | A tobacco barn was destroyed. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $3,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $3,000 | Several power poles and a tree were downed. |
| May 2011 | Flood | Brooksville | $2,000 | Roads were closed due to high water. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $2,000 | Large limbs were knocked down. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | $1,000 | A tree was downed onto a road. |
| April 2014 | Flood | Brooksville | - | 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 1994 | Hail | Brooksville | - | Tobacco crops flattened East of Augusta. Numerous reports of trees and power lines downed. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Brooksville | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Brooksville | - | no account filed |
| January 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooksville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Brooksville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asbury (historical) | 1.6 miles | 8 | |
| Powersville | 3.0 miles | 8 | |
| Bladeston | 3.1 miles | 8 | |
| Cumminsville | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Chatham | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Parina (historical) | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Woolcott | 3.9 miles | 8 | |
| Gertrude | 4.0 miles | 8 |
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 Brooksville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2112519 | 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 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.



