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Brownsville, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Washburn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72927. It lies near Ferguson Valley. The Survey maps it on the Booneville quadrangle.

Brownsville within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

86 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Brownsville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 587 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2004Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brownsville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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
Dixie Stone CoFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownsville in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
May 2010Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$3,000Shingles were blown off a house, and a tree was blown down north of Booneville.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBrownsville-The Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines down at the intersection of Highway 116 and 23.
July 2012HailBrownsville-no account filed
April 2011HailBrownsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Chismville1.5 miles22
Cauthron3.5 miles22
Booneville4.1 miles22
Glendale5.4 miles23
Magazine7.1 miles22
Caulksville7.8 miles19
Ratcliff7.8 miles19
Carolan7.9 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 64227. 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.