Brunswick, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lewis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47438. It stands on Susan Brothers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coal City quadrangle. It stands 525 feet above sea level.

Brunswick within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1938 USGS Coal City quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Coal City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Coal City quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Coal City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Brunswick between 2002 and 2008, burning about 26 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	1

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
25 July 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 April 2008	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 April 2008	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 April 2008	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 March 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 March 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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 Brunswick: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, Free. 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
	Lower Block Coal Underclays	Clay	Past Producer
	Lower Block Coal Underclays	Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, Free	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
New Brunswick	0.6 miles	18
Howesville	2.0 miles	17
Bogle Corner	3.7 miles	17
Buchanan Corner	4.4 miles	17
Middlebury	4.6 miles	16
Barrick Corner	4.8 miles	16
Danville	4.9 miles	16
Clay City	5.5 miles	16

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 Brunswick	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4979470	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 431671. 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.