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Brooklyn Center, Minnesota

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Brooklyn Center City. It lies in ZIP code area 55429. The Survey maps it on the Minneapolis North quadrangle. 33,782 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Brooklyn Center within Hennepin County

Population over time

2 figures

Brooklyn Center grew from 30,104 to 33,782 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
201030,104
202033,782+3,678 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Brooklyn Center between 1999 and 2019, burning about 85 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance6

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
17 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Brooklyn Center: 13 producers, 2 past producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Bentonite. 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
North Central Aggregate PitBentoniteProducer
Minn Silica Sand PitSilicaPast Producer
Minnesota Silica Sand PitSilicaProducerSandstone
Anderson No 609 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Barton Pit No 707Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Barton Pit No 725Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Chas M Freidheim S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Johnson Pit No 724Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Liychik Pit No 701Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Number 85 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hennepin County

Storms near this place

19 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooklyn Center in 19 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2013Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn Center$25,000Hundreds of trees were blown down in North Minneapolis. Many landed on houses and vehicles, causing significant damage.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn Center$10,000Several trees were blown down north of Crystal Lake, some were blocking roads.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn Center$5,000A shed and gazebo were damaged in Crystal.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn Center-The ASOS station located at Crystal (KMIC) airport, measured a 60mph wind gust, but no reports of damage were received.
July 2019Flash FloodBrooklyn Center-Areas near, and surrounding the Crystal Shopping Center, and the 5700 Block of Broadway, were closed to to high water. Also, the 5600 Block of Corvallis Avenue was closed due to high water.
November 2012HailBrooklyn Center-A video from the public contained information of quarter size hail that fell near Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn Center-Several large branches were blown down near Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.
May 2008HailBrooklyn Center-Hail occurred at 36th and Louisianna.
May 2008HailBrooklyn Center-Hail occurred at North Memorial Hospital.
May 2008HailBrooklyn Center-Hail occurred at Boone Ave. and 32nd.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn Center-Medium sized trees were downed.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn Center-An 8 inch diameter tree was downed.
May 2015HailBrooklyn Center-no account filed
September 2015HailBrooklyn Center-no account filed
May 2014HailBrooklyn Center-no account filed
July 2011HailBrooklyn Center-no account filed
May 2004HailBrooklyn Center-no account filed
June 2002HailBrooklyn Center-no account filed
May 2002HailBrooklyn Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hennepin 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
Brooklyn Park1.8 miles21
Robbinsdale3.0 miles21
Crystal3.3 miles21
New Hope3.9 miles21
Golden Valley4.7 miles21
Osseo4.8 miles21
West Coon Rapids5.8 miles20
Glenwood Junction6.1 miles26

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 CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q929519The 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 640508. 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.