Browns Valley, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47989. The Survey maps it on the New Market quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Browns Valley within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS New Market quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Browns Valley between 2002 and 2005, burning about 15 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
14 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
2 December 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 December 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 November 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
4 October 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
17 October 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Browns Valley: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Russellville Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Russellville Stone Co. With Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Browns Valley in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Browns Valley	-	Numerous trees blown down.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Waveland	3.3 miles	14
Deer Mill	4.6 miles	14
Lake Holiday	4.6 miles	13
Lapland	4.7 miles	13
Sycamore Ford	4.8 miles	14
New Market	5.1 miles	13
Parkersburg	5.2 miles	13
North Union	6.4 miles	13

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 Browns Valley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4976685	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 431643. 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.