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Brooklyn, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Brooklyn Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53521. The Survey maps it on the Evansville quadrangle. 1,524 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Brooklyn within Green County

On record in Brooklyn

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Brooklyn between 2006 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. None 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 burning4
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources83
14 July 2012Arson/incendiarism26 acresLeopold Wetland Management DistrictBIGLOW RD
5 May 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRAILER DRAGGING
3 May 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources55
1 May 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources54
5 April 2006Debris and open burning41 acresLeopold Wetland Management DistrictLUND CONVERSION
22 April 2018Smoking3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18418
21 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources55

Every fire recorded in Green County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Brooklyn: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Union PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Barteld QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Halverson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Liberty Pole QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Reindahl QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thickpenny QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Green County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooklyn in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBrooklyn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Green 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
Dayton7.8 miles14
Attica8.2 miles18
Exeter9.2 miles14
Ross Crossing9.8 miles14
Albany10.7 miles17
Mineral Point (historical)11.0 miles17
Monticello14.0 miles15
New Glarus14.3 miles13

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 BrooklynAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2322312The 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 1562238. 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.