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Brownington, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Shepherdsville Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40165. The Survey maps it on the Samuels quadrangle. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Brownington within Bullitt County

On record in Brownington

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

36 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Brownington between 1998 and 2019, burning about 154 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
27 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance50 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEATSVILLE
27 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryR J CORMAN FIRE
24 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 1999Natural9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullitt 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
Lotus2.1 miles11
Hobbs2.6 miles12
Solitude2.9 miles11
Cedar Grove2.9 miles12
Ridgetop3.4 miles11
Poplar Level3.5 miles12
Clermont3.8 miles12
Lick Skillet (historical)4.2 miles12

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 BrowningtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4976584The 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 507593. 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.