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Brownsville, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Township 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72067. The Survey maps it on the Brownsville quadrangle.

Brownsville within Cleburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

62 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Brownsville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 738 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 were 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2015Debris and open burning26 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2012Debris and open burning16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2010Arson/incendiarism36 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2010Arson/incendiarism55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Brownsville: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkStone, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownsville in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 flash flood. 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
April 2015Flash FloodBrownsville-County roads in Brownsville were flooded.

Every storm recorded in Cleburne 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
Tannenbaum2.7 miles16
Lake Ridge3.2 miles16
Budd Creek4.1 miles16
Lone Pine4.4 miles15
Woodrow4.6 miles15
Sunny Slope4.6 miles16
Everett (historical)5.7 miles15
Shiloh (historical)5.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76434. 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.