Brookings, Oregon Brookings, Oregon An aerial view of Brookings, Oregon and its coastline An aerial view of Brookings, Oregon and its coastline Flag of Brookings, Oregon Location in Oregon Location in Oregon Brookings, Oregon is positioned in the US Brookings, Oregon - Brookings, Oregon State Oregon Brookings is a town/city in Curry County, Oregon, United States.
Brookings, president of the Brookings Lumber and Box Company, which established the town/city in 1908.
In 1906, the Brookings Timber Company hired William James Ward, a graduate in civil engineering and forestry, to come to the southern Oregon Coast and survey its lumbering potential.
After timber cruising the Chetco and Pistol River areas for a several years, he recommended that the Brookings citizens begin extensive lumbering operations here and secure a townsite for a foundry and shipping center. Brookings was responsible for the beginning of Brookings as a business town, it was his cousin Robert S.
Brookings, who was responsible for its actual design.
The latter Brookings hired Bernard Maybeck, an architect based in San Francisco who was later involved in the Panama Pacific International Exposition, to lay out the plat of the townsite. On September 9, 1942, Mount Emily, near Brookings, became the first site in the continental United States to suffer aerial bombardment in wartime.
Fujita would be invited back to Brookings in 1962 and he presented the town his family's 400-year-old samurai sword in friendship after the Japanese government was given assurances that he would not be tried as a war criminal.
Brookings made him an honorary citizen a several days before his death in 1997.
Since the 1980s, Brookings has thriving retirees, mostly from California; senior people constitute the majority of the town's population.
The total populace of the Brookings region is over 13,000, which includes Harbor (a census-designated place), and others.
There have been various proposals to annex the close-by unincorporated areas into Brookings; while most attempts floundered over the years, one large region north of town owned by the U.S.
The unincorporated improve to the south of the Chetco River, while encompassed in the Brookings Urban Growth Boundary, has resisted annexation into the City of Brookings.
The City of Brookings offers the only 24/7 police service in Curry County.
America's Wild Rivers Coast is a county-wide marketing brand for Curry County, Oregon, and Del Norte County, California. The Port of Brookings Harbor was damaged by tidal surges from a tsunami on March 11, 2011. The biggest surge was estimated to be nearly 8 feet (2.4 m). Boats were damaged, sunk, set adrift, and swept out to sea after many docks were torn away and pilings broken. The tsunami was caused by the 9.0 MW Tohoku earthquake offshore of the east coast of Honshu Island, Japan.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.94 square miles (10.20 km2), of which 3.87 square miles (10.02 km2) is territory and 0.07 square miles (0.18 km2) is water. The Brookings region has a cool-summer mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification Csb). Brookings has temperate winters amid which intense rainfall is broken by weeks of warm, sunny weather.
There are an average of only two afternoons annually with high temperatures of 90 F (32.2 C) or higher and an average of 7.5 mornings with low temperatures of 32 F (0 C) or lower.
The wettest calendar year in Brookings was 1996 with 123.90 inches (3,147 mm) and the driest 1976 with 43.34 inches (1,100.8 mm).
Snow is rare in Brookings, averaging only 0.7 inches or 0.018 metres per year, but 10 inches (0.25 m) fell in January 1916. Due to its location, Brookings is subject to winter (and less incessantly summer) temperatures considered unusually warm for the Oregon Coast or for that matter, the coast of Northern California north of Santa Cruz.
This is due in part to the marine influences from its locale on the Pacific Ocean, but mostly from its situation at the foot of the Klamath Mountains, from which winds compress and warm the air flowing onto Brookings.
This is called the Brookings effect or Chetco effect, similar to the warm dry Santa Ana winds of coastal Southern California.
Climate data for Brookings, Oregon, 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1914 present (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 Azalea Park is positioned at 640 Old County Road.
With its picnic areas, bandshell, snackshack, gazebo, Kidtown playground, disc golf course, softball and soccer fields and the Capella by the Sea, Azalea Park is Brookings premier outside gathering place for everything from leisurely strolls and quiet contemplation to picnics, birthday parties and ball games to small and large weddings, reunions, civic affairs, summer concerts, and more.
Harris Beach State Park is positioned on Highway 101 at the north end of Brookings.
Salmon Run Golf Course is positioned behind the coastal mountain peaks, and only 3.5 miles from downtown Brookings.
Since 1993, the Southern Oregon Kite Festival has been one of the premier kite celebrations in the United States, bringing some of the most well known kite fliers and kite manufacturers to perform and display their creations for small-town inhabitants and tourists alike.
The SOKF brings 10,000+ spectators to the Kite Field at the Port of Brookings Harbor over that weekend.
It takes place the third weekend in August on the boardwalk at the Port of Brookings Harbor.
Each year, young women from the small-town high school compete in a scholarship pageant for the title of "Azalea Queen." A fairly new event in the City of Brookings is the Wild Rogue Relay each June.
This 218-mile, overnight running relay begins in southern Jackson County, Oregon and culminates at the finish line inside Azalea Park in Brookings where 1000 runners converge on the city.
Another very prominent event in Brookings is Nature's Coastal Holiday which takes place from Thanksgiving weekend through Christmas.
A primary employer in Brookings is South Coast Lumber.
Brookings has recently been touted as a "foodie" town.
Brookings offers many eclectic dining options, many featuring locally sourced products.
Brookings is home to four major and secondary schools and a improve college satellite campus.
Brookings Harbor Christian School Southwestern Oregon Community College - Since 1995, Curry County people have had access to elected student services, an array of academic options and a top-notch college education.
KSEP-FM (Brookings Seventh-day Adventist Church) Brookings Airport (general aviation) The Coastal Express joins Brookings to North Bend and Smith River, California The POINT joins Brookings to Grants Pass, Medford and Klamath Falls Port of Brookings Harbor Nobuo Fujita (1911-1997), Japanese World War 2 pilot later considered an "ambassador of good will" and honorary citizen of Brookings a b c d e f "American Fact - Finder".
"Brookings, a Live Community, Marks Once Bleak Spot of Dreary Desolation".
Oregon State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State GENE SLOVERS US NAVY PAGES Japanese Plane Bombed Oregon on September 9, 1942 "Brookings port destruction by tsunami is a blow Curry County cannot afford".
"Harbor Oregon Climate Summary".
"BROOKINGS 2 SE, OREGON - Climate Summary".
"BROOKINGS 2 SE, OREGON (351055)".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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