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Brooklyn, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49230. It stands on Kedron Drain. The Survey maps it on the Onsted quadrangle. 1,313 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Brooklyn within Jackson County

On record in Brooklyn

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Brooklyn grew from 1,206 to 1,313 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
20101,206
20201,313+107 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

29 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Brooklyn between 2018 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony4
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
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 344 - 2020
22 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 294 - 2020
20 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000888 - 2019
19 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 586 - 2019
15 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 493 - 2020
14 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 490 - 2020
14 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000436 - 2018
6 May 2019Natural15 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 314 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Brooklyn: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Clay. 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
Peninsular Port.Cement Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Jude Sandstone QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Jude Stone QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Napoleon Sandstone QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooklyn in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$50,000Several trees were blown down near Brooklyn and at least one fell on a house.
June 2006HailBrooklyn$20,000Hail ranging anywhere from one and a quarter to seven eighths inches in diameter was reported in Brooklyn.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$15,000Several trees were blown down and some fell across and blocked roads in Norvell township.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$15,000A barn under construction on Cement City Highway near Hayes Road was severely damaged.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$10,000Three trees greater than one foot in diameter were uprooted in Brooklyn.
June 2005HailBrooklyn$10,000no account filed
March 1998Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn$5,000Jackson County Central Dispatch reported trees and power lines were downed in Norvel Township near the intersection of Michigan Highway 124 and Wellwood Road, approximately 5 miles east of Brooklyn. A large branch from a downed tree broke the front window of a home on Wellwood Road. No injuries were reported. This was the first severe thunderstorm report of the season in south central Lower Michigan.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-A trained spotter in Brooklyn reported that the entire city was without power due to blown down power lines.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Jefferson2.2 miles18
Sunset Beach2.7 miles13
The Heights2.9 miles13
Napoleon3.8 miles13
Norvell4.9 miles13
Clarklake5.2 miles18
Oak Point6.0 miles17
Liberty8.1 miles18

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 BrooklynAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1930227The 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 622035. 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.