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Brook Park, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Brook Park City. It lies in ZIP code area 55007. The Survey maps it on the Brook Park quadrangle. 132 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.

Brook Park within Pine County

Population over time

2 figures

Brook Park fell from 139 to 132 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
2010139
2020132-7 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Brook Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,401 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 48 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 burning76
Arson/incendiarism48
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2000Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning11 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pine County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brook Park in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 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 2022HailBrook Park-no account filed
July 2019HailBrook Park-no account filed
August 2002HailBrook Park-no account filed
July 2000HailBrook Park-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBrook Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pine 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
Henriette5.8 miles13
Mission Creek6.8 miles13
Beroun6.9 miles13
Hinckley8.2 miles8
Evergreen Park8.2 miles8
Pine City10.2 miles12
Friesland12.2 miles8
Greely14.1 miles12

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 Brook ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2232707The 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 640503. 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.