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Brooks is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,469 as of the 2020 census , stagnant from 2,401 in the 2010 census . [ 3 ] Brooks was struck by a tornado in 1996.
The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry; for Kentucky, the codes start with 21 and are completed with the three digit county code. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county.
This page lists census-designated places (CDPs) in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2022, there were a total of 135 census-designated places in Kentucky. As of 2022, there were a total of 135 census-designated places in Kentucky.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
The unincorporated community of Brooks is to the west across I-65. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 3.3 square miles (8.6 km 2 ), of which 0.027 square miles (0.07 km 2 ), or 0.86%, is water.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 164 square miles (420 km 2), of which 160 square miles (410 km 2) is land and 4.1 square miles (11 km 2) (2.5%) is water. [5] The county is located at the confluence of the Licking River and Ohio River, in the outer Bluegrass area of the Bluegrass region of the state ...
Bracken County was organized as Kentucky's 23rd county in 1796 from parts of Mason and Campbell counties. [3] [4] It was named after two creeks, the Big and Little Bracken, which in turn were named for William Bracken, an 18th-century explorer and surveyor who visited the area in 1773. [5]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 159 square miles (410 km 2), of which 151 square miles (390 km 2) is land and 8.1 square miles (21 km 2) (5.1%) is water. [9] It is the fourth-smallest county in Kentucky by land area and fifth-smallest by total area. It lies along the Ohio and Licking Rivers.