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Brooklyn, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Chesnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29323. The Survey maps it on the Fingerville East quadrangle.

Brooklyn within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Brooklyn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 566 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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
Debris and open burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking4
Natural2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use17 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceWHOLE LOTTA LOVE
6 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceJUG FIRE
23 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceCHOO CHOO FIRE
2 September 2019Other causesunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceJACK MCKENNEY RD
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceGULLY
10 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceSTACY RD 2012
9 August 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Brooklyn: 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Mica. 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
E W. Foster ProspectMicaProspect
Dills Creek Cassiterite Occurrence E TribTinOccurrencePlacer
Lower East Trib Cassiterite Occurrence of Floyds CreekTinOccurrencePlacer
Richardson Creek Cassiterite Occurrence W TribTinOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooklyn in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 2012Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-Power lines were blown down at Parris Bridge Rd and McSwain Rd. Trees were blown down at Fish Camp Rd and Turkey Farm Rd, and a tree was down at Fish Camp Rd and Parris Bridge Rd.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-Numerous trees were blown down in the area near highway 11 and Ivey Rd. One tree fell on a house.
July 2008HailBrooklyn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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
Arrowwood2.4 miles15
Cooley Springs3.0 miles15
Chesnee4.1 miles15
Fingerville5.4 miles15
Little Africa5.4 miles15
Bryants Store (historical)6.3 miles15
Mountain View6.4 miles13
Brown Arrow6.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1248135. 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.