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.
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
Ford Motor Company Brooklyn Plantlisted 2017
Mill Street-South Branch Raisin River Bridgelisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresBrooklyn 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,206 | |
| 2020 | 1,313 | +107 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1948 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Onsted quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
29 since 2018Regional 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 use | 15 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 344 - 2020 |
| 22 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NAPOLEON TOWNSHIP FD 294 - 2020 |
| 20 July 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ADDISON FD 0000888 - 2019 |
| 19 July 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 586 - 2019 |
| 15 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 493 - 2020 |
| 14 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 490 - 2020 |
| 14 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000436 - 2018 |
| 6 May 2019 | Natural | 15 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 314 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peninsular Port.Cement Co Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Jude Sandstone Quarry | Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Jude Stone Quarry | Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Napoleon Sandstone Quarry | Flagstone | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $50,000 | Several trees were blown down near Brooklyn and at least one fell on a house. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Brooklyn | $20,000 | Hail ranging anywhere from one and a quarter to seven eighths inches in diameter was reported in Brooklyn. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $15,000 | Several trees were blown down and some fell across and blocked roads in Norvell township. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $15,000 | A barn under construction on Cement City Highway near Hayes Road was severely damaged. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $10,000 | Three trees greater than one foot in diameter were uprooted in Brooklyn. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Brooklyn | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $5,000 | Jackson 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | - | A trained spotter in Brooklyn reported that the entire city was without power due to blown down power lines. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson | 2.2 miles | 18 | |
| Sunset Beach | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| The Heights | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Napoleon | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Norvell | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Clarklake | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Oak Point | 6.0 miles | 17 | |
| Liberty | 8.1 miles | 18 |
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 Brooklyn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1930227 | 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 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.






