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Brookhurst, Wyoming

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Casper South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82636. It stands on Elkhorn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brookhurst quadrangle. 205 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,118 feet above sea level.

Brookhurst within Natrona County

Population over time

2 figures

Brookhurst grew from 185 to 205 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
2010185
2020205+20 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Brookhurst between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,142 acres in total. 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Natural14
Fireworks8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Firearms and explosives use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeCOMPOST
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeCOLE CREEK
5 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNatrona CountyLANDMARK
4 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNatrona CountyMORADO
4 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNatrona CountySE WYOMING BLVD
2 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNatrona CountyNA
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNatrona CountyIMIGRANT TRAIL FIRE
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.2 acresCasper Field OfficeGEARY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Natrona County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Brookhurst: 8 producers, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite. 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
Benton Clay Co MillBentoniteProducer
Kaycee Clay MineBentoniteProducer
Kaycee MineBentoniteProducer
Bradshaw PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Casper Concrete Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hidebrand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lathrop L-3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State Land PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sun Ray PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Natrona County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookhurst in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2013Flash FloodBrookhurst$200,000Heavy rain began falling around 1900MST over east Casper and the east end of Casper Mountain. Thunderstorms had approached the area from the southwest and a low-level northeast flow made for a slower progression over east Casper. The result was rainfall of one-half to one-inch in about 25 minutes. Street flooding was observed along East 2nd Street from Wyoming Boulevard toward Hat Six Road. The water was up to two feet deep near the intersection of Blackmore Road and East 2nd Street. Hail around one-half inch in diameter accumulated to a depth of several inches.||The most significant flooding occurred at the Hat Six Ranch at the east end of Casper Mountain. The steep canyons and hillsides above the ranch were torched the previous September by the Sheep Herder Hill Wildfire. Excessive rainfall quickly brought a mix of rock, mud, and debris down one canyon and another draw damaging two homes, at least three vehicles, and two all-terrain vehicles. Water and debris eventually found the Clear Fork Muddy Creek channel and spread out to be anywhere from 50 to 100 yards wide. One additional ranch received damage as the creek swept northeast and eventually topped the Hat Six Road.
June 2016Funnel CloudBrookhurst-Two reports were received of a funnel cloud east of Casper in the vicinity of Cole Creek Road.
May 2008HailBrookhurst-One inch diamater hail was observed northeast of Casper.
May 2008HailBrookhurst-Nickel sized hail fell near the Hat Six exit on Interstate 25.

Every storm recorded in Natrona 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
Strouds0.3 miles11
Evansville1.7 miles11
Casper4.1 miles11
Thorndale Acres4.8 miles11
Allendale4.9 miles11
Hartrandt6.2 miles11
Richardson Acres6.3 miles11
Midwest Heights6.6 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 BrookhurstAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979898The 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 1597232. 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.