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Brownsville, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hickman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42050. It lies near Wilson Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hickman quadrangle. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Brownsville within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

34 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Brownsville between 1999 and 2017, burning about 205 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
26 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.2 acresTennessee Division of ForestryEIGHTY ONE
24 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKUDZU
24 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 June 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
16 April 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTennessee Division of ForestryTHIRTY THREE
10 April 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBROWNSVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Brownsville: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite. 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
Carborundum Co/ Hickman, Ky.GraphiteProducer
Emma D. DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownsville in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2002: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1996Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$10,000no account filed
January 2002Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$4,000Near Brownsville, a trailer was blown over, and the windows of a shed were broken. Just north of Fulton, the porch was blown off a trailer.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Beech Grove (historical)1.8 miles17
Anna Lynne2.1 miles13
Blue Pond2.2 miles13
Stubbs2.8 miles17
Hickman3.0 miles17
Mabel3.9 miles13
Ledford4.5 miles13
Bondurant5.5 miles13

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 BrownsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690171The 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 507597. 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.