Brookings is a city in Curry County, Oregon, United States. It was named after John E. Brookings, president of the Brookings Lumber and Box Company, which founded the city in 1908. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,744.

In 1906, the Brookings Timber Company hired William James Ward, a graduate in civil engineering and forestry, to inherit the southern Oregon Coast and survey its lumbering potential. After timber cruising the Chetco and Pistol River areas for several years, he recommended that the Brookings people begin extensive lumbering operations here and secure a townsite for a mill and shipping center.

While John E. Brookings was blamed for the founding of Brookings as a company town, it was his cousin, Robert S. Brookings, who was answerable for its actual design. The latter Brookings hired Bernard Maybeck, an architect based in San Francisco who was later full of life in the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, to lay out the plat of the townsite.

On September 9, 1942, Mount Emily close Brookings became the unaided site in the mainland United States and the second in the continental territory after the bombing of Dutch Harbor to suffer aerial bombardment during World War II. A Japanese floatplane piloted by Nobuo Fujita was launched from submarine I-25. The jet was armed subsequent to two incendiary bombs on a mission expected to Begin massive fires in the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest.