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Brooksville, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Shawnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74873. The Survey maps it on the Brooksville quadrangle. 71 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Brooksville within Pottawatomie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Brooksville between 2005 and 2017, burning about 380 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
1 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined125 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCOKER ROAD
11 December 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresWewoka AgencyFISH
31 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined175 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryBRINKLEY ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brooksville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

15 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooksville in 15 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 10 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2015Flash FloodBrooksville$200,000Flood waters have risen into several area homes.
May 2022Tornado (EF1)Brooksville$10,000Damage was found along US-177 to the south of Tecumseh as the tornado moved to the north and northeast. Additional tree damage was found by the survey crew along Harrison Road before the tornado dissipated just west of Skagg City Road.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$5,000Metal shed destroyed by wind.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBrooksville$1,000Window, roof, and shed damage reported.
October 2019HailBrooksville-From Mping.
April 2021HailBrooksville-no account filed
April 2021HailBrooksville-no account filed
April 2021HailBrooksville-no account filed
March 2019HailBrooksville-no account filed
April 2017HailBrooksville-no account filed
October 2016HailBrooksville-no account filed
May 2004HailBrooksville-no account filed
May 2003HailBrooksville-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBrooksville-no account filed
August 2002HailBrooksville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Morvin2.5 miles13
Macomb4.1 miles13
Macomb-Y4.2 miles14
Chisney4.2 miles14
Tecumseh4.4 miles15
Romulus6.1 miles15
Burnett6.6 miles13
Shawnee Town (historical)6.9 miles15

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 BrooksvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2169299The 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 1100237. 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.