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Glenbrook, Nevada

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Zephyr Cove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89413. It stands on Glenbrook Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glenbrook quadrangle. 315 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,250 feet above sea level.

Glenbrook within Douglas County

On record in Glenbrook

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Glenbrook grew from 215 to 315 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
2010215
2020315+100 (+47%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 30 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Logan House Road, Glenbrook, Douglas County, NV
Logan House Road, Glenbrook, Douglas County, NV
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Genoa Peak Road, Glenbrook, Douglas County, NV
Genoa Peak Road, Glenbrook, Douglas County, NV
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Glenbrook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 3 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
Natural48
Recreation and ceremony20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2
Other causes1

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 1995Smokingunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitSKUNK
7 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitLIBRARY
5 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestSPOONER
5 September 1998Naturalunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitTWENTY EIGHT
27 September 2005Naturalunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitMARLETTE
25 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unitnot named
25 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unitnot named
25 September 1994Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestUSFS 095

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenbrook in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 6 heavy rain, 1 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
July 2024Heavy RainGlenbrook-A mesonet station NSPO located on Spooner Summit, CA, reported a total rainfall amount of 1.06 inches.
December 2023Heavy RainGlenbrook-Mesonet station (NSPO) located at Spooner Summit, NV (DRI), reported a 24hr rainfall storm total of 0.86 inches.
September 2023Heavy RainGlenbrook-A CO-OP Observer located 1.0 mi S of Glenbrook, NV, reported a storm total rainfall amount of 0.67 inches.
March 2019Heavy RainGlenbrook-Mesonet station NSPO at Spooner Summit reported 0.78 inches of rainfall from 27 March 0830PST to 28 March 0830PST. Mesonet elevation 7040 feet MSL.
November 2018Heavy RainGlenbrook-CO-OP Observer in Glenbrook reported 0.60 inches of rainfall from 21 November 1100PST to 22 November 1100PST at an elevation of 6542 feet MSL.
November 2018Heavy RainGlenbrook-Mesonet NSPO, Spooner Summit, reported 0.63 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 21 November 1730PST to 22 November 1730PST. Mesonet elevation 7040 feet MSL.
July 2002HailGlenbrook-One inch hail

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Logan Creek Estates1.6 miles30
Lincoln Park3.5 miles30
Lakeridge3.7 miles30
Skyland4.6 miles30
Zephyr Cove6.1 miles30
Round Hill6.8 miles34
Elk Point7.2 miles34
Hobart (historical)7.4 miles34

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 GlenbrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3470894The 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 863755. 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.