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Welcome to Brookings ...

The coastal city of Brookings is located in Curry County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Brookings, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1913.

From the  Census Estimates for 2019, Brookings has a population of 6,490 people<2> (see below for details).

Brookings is 220 feet [67 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: Brookings lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Brookings: 541 & 458<4>

Population Details ...

Taken from the 2019 Census Estimates, Brookings had an population of 6,490 people. This is an increase of 2.43% since the 2010 Census (or an increase of 19.15% since the 2000 Census).

At the time of the 2010 Census, Brookings had a population of 6,336 people (which is 28.31% of the total population of Curry County). This makes Brookings the county's most populous community.

The population of Brookings represents 0.17% of the population of Oregon (which has 3,831,074 people), making it the state's 69th most populous community.

With a 2010 count of 6,336 people, the population of Brookings increased 16.32% from the 2000 Census (with a count of 5,447 people).

More information can be found on the Census Page for Brookings.

Communities Also Named Brookings ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 4 communities that are also named Brookings - they are located in Arkansas, Michigan, South Dakota and Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Brookings.

Websites for Brookings ...

Official Website: www.brookings.or.us/

Communities near Brookings ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Brookings.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Brookings. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Brookings.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Brookings. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Brookings.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Brookings. See our Newspapers Page for Brookings.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Brookings ...

Looking for more information about Brookings? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

In addition to the Tourism page for Brookings, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Brookings.

Adding Brookings to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Brookings in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Brookings was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7>

X2X - From that list, the Brookings post office opened in 1913.

We also found Brookings on a map titled Auto Trails Map of Oregon (1925).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Brookings.

The official website for Brookings: www.brookings.or.us/

The official website for Curry County: www.co.curry.or.us/

The official website for State of Oregon: https://www.oregon.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Oregon's counties, including Curry, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Brookings.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Brookings - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 541 code has been Overlayed with the 458 area code. New phone numbers in the Brookings area will be assigned with one of these codes: 541 or 458. As a result, placing a call in the Brookings area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<7>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/




 

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