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Brownwood Manor, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Whitesville-Philpot census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42303. The Survey maps it on the Owensboro East quadrangle.

Brownwood Manor within Daviess County

On record in Brownwood Manor

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brownwood Manor in 2010, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined1

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
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOWER TOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Daviess 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 Brownwood Manor: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Daviess County DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
No. 9 DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
W. L. Delker DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownwood Manor in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBrownwood Manor$25,000A large tree split down the middle that fell onto vehicles in the Gateway Townhomes parking lot.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindBrownwood Manor$25,000Several power transmission poles were blown over a few miles east of Owensboro. A carport was blown away near Thruston.
March 2012Tornado (EF0)Brownwood Manor-The tornado touched down briefly just east of Owensboro.

Every storm recorded in Daviess 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
Covent Gardens (historical)1.1 miles18
Woodcrest1.2 miles18
Thruston1.4 miles18
Locust Hills1.8 miles18
Normandy Heights1.9 miles18
The Downs2.0 miles18
Ensor2.6 miles16
Dermont2.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742915. 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.