Brooks, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Brooks City. It lies in ZIP code area 56715. It stands on Brooks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brooks quadrangle. 117 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBrooks fell from 141 to 117 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 | 141 | |
| 2020 | 117 | -24 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1918 USGS Terrebonne quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Brooks quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Crookston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
30 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooks in 30 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | $125,000 | 6 large grain bins were destroyed. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | $3,000 | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | MN dot mesonet station MN068 Brooks, MN. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | Measured gust at MN dot MN068 Brooks, MN. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Brooks | - | Hail Quarter To Golf Ball Sized. Trees Uprooted. Reports And Photos Posted To Social Media. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | Multiple semi truck trailer combinations were blown off hwy 59, between Brooks and Plummer. Time estimated based on radar. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | Peak wind was measured at a MNDOT RWIS station on Hwy 59. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | Large branches were blown down and numerous power outages were reported. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | The wind gust was measured by a MNDOT RWIS sensor. |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | Numerous four to six inch diameter tree branches were broken down in shelterbelts across southern Poplar River Township. A nearby MNDOT RWIS mesonet station also lost power. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | Large tree branches were blown down onto power lines causing local power outages. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | The 73 mph wind gust was measured by a MNDOT RWIS site on U.S. Highway 59, along the Red Lake and Polk County line. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | Many large branches were blown down near the Red Lake and Polk county line. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | A MNDOT RWIS site measured the 58 mph wind gust. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | The wind gust was measured by a MNDOT RWIS sensor. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | A MNDOT RWIS sensor reported a 63 mph wind gust. |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | A MNDOT RWIS sensor detected the wind gust. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | Large branches were blown down. A nearby MN DOT RWIS site measured a 50 knot wind gust. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooks | - | Several 5 inch diameter tree branches were broken off by the wind. A MN DOT RWIS site in the area reported a 50 mph wind gust near the time of this event. |
| August 2002 | Flash Flood | Brooks | - | County road 14 washed out about 2.5 miles east of highway 32. |
| August 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Brooks | - | A brief touchdown was reported. |
| May 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Brooks | - | Several brief touchdowns were reported. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Brooks | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Brooks | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Brooks | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Brooks | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Brooks | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Brooks | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Brooks | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Brooks | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plummer | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Terrebonne | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Oklee | 8.0 miles | 10 | |
| Garnes | 9.0 miles | 10 | |
| Roland | 14.8 miles | 10 | |
| Red Lake Falls | 15.2 miles | 10 | |
| Perault | 15.3 miles | 10 | |
| Delorme | 15.6 miles | 10 |
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 Brooks | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2232671 | 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 640513. 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.
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.





