Brownsville, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Carmi Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62821. The Survey maps it on the Carmi quadrangle. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Brownsville within White County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1940 USGS Carmi quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Carmi quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Carmi quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:100000

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownsville in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2013	Flood	Brownsville	$2,000	Minor flooding occurred along the Little Wabash River near Carmi. There was minor flooding of low-lying fields and river access roads.
January 2020	Flood	Brownsville	-	Moderate flooding occurred on the Little Wabash River. The river crested at 34.64 feet on the afternoon of the 20th at the Carmi river gage. Moderate flooding begins at 32 feet. Areas near Routes 1 and 14 in Carmi flooded. County roads were inundated. The river remained above flood stage into February.
January 2014	Flood	Brownsville	-	Minor flooding lingered along the Little Wabash River for the first few days of 2014. Some county roads were inundated. Low-lying fields and woodlands were underwater.
February 2012	Flood	Brownsville	-	Minor flooding of low-lying fields occurred along the Little Wabash River.

Every storm recorded in White 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Stokes	2.3 miles	9
Bingman Station	2.9 miles	9
Iron	4.7 miles	20
Milan	4.7 miles	9
Sacramento	5.0 miles	9
Carmi	5.7 miles	9
Norris City	6.1 miles	18
Herald	6.2 miles	20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Brownsville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17986124	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 404989. 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.

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.