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Brookings, Oregon

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Brookings census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97415. It lies near Table Rock. The Survey maps it on the Brookings quadrangle. 6,744 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 129 feet above sea level.

Brookings within Curry County

On record in Brookings

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

Population over time

3 figures

Brookings grew from 5,447 to 6,744 between 2000 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
20005,447
20106,336+889 (+16%)
20206,744+408 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Brookings between 1992 and 2019, burning about 165 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning28
Recreation and ceremony19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGold Beach UnitRAINBOW ROCK
5 September 2015Smoking2.0 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersRAINBOW ROCK RD
3 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreGold Beach UnitFERRY CREEK
29 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGold Beach UnitWIMMER ROAD
28 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGold Beach UnitCARPENTERVILLE
27 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGold Beach UnitSPORTHAVEN BEACH
24 September 1995Smokingunder an acreGold Beach UnitLUNDEEN LANE
23 September 1994Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGold Beach UnitAPPLE ALLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Curry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Brookings: 24 past producers, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Boron-Borates. 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
Lone Ranch PriceiteBoron-BoratesPast ProducerUnknown
Campbell PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Joe Hall PropertyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Campbell PitStonePast Producer
Cubic QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Curry County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookings in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2002: 1 wildfire, 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
November 2002Tornado (F0)Brookings$500,000A spotter called at 1500 PST on 11/7 and reported the waterspout/tornado that occurred 9 hours earlier.
October 1999WildfireBrookings-See below.

Every storm recorded in Curry 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
Harbor0.9 miles9
Carpenterville11.9 miles10
Pistol River16.6 miles10
Hunter Creek24.2 miles11
Gold Beach25.5 miles11
Wedderburn26.9 miles11
Knoxville (historical)27.3 miles11
Jerrys Flat (historical)28.0 miles11

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 BrookingsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1630187The 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 1138655. 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.