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Brownbranch, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Beaver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65608. It stands on Caney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brownbranch quadrangle.

Brownbranch within Taney County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Fires near this place

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Brownbranch between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,495 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 76 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
Arson/incendiarism76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning17
Smoking1
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
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestALBERT
7 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism14 acresMark Twain National ForestONION
5 April 2003Natural33 acresMark Twain National ForestEASY MONEY
4 April 2005Arson/incendiarism190 acresMark Twain National ForestAMOEBA
20 April 2007Arson/incendiarism20 acresMark Twain National ForestWALKER HILLS
2 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresMark Twain National ForestJENNINGS
2 April 1992Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taney County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brownbranch: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead. 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
Roberts DiggingsZinc, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taney County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownbranch in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBrownbranch$25,000Trees and power lines were reported down across Highway 76 north of Brown Branch at Dalton Road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBrownbranch-A large tree was uprooted and numerous large limbs were reported down.
May 2020FloodBrownbranch-Dalton Road was closed at the Brown Branch Tributary low water crossing due to flooding.
May 2019FloodBrownbranch-Beaver Creek flooded and closed State Highway 76 at State Highway W. According to locals, this is a rare occurrence. The road was closed for two hours.
October 2019FloodBrownbranch-Dalton Road was reported flooded and impassable at Brown Branch Creek.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBrownbranch-Several 3 to 4 foot diameter trees were uprooted.
May 2018Flash FloodBrownbranch-Caney Creek was flooded out of its banks.
May 1998HailBrownbranch-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taney 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
McClurg3.0 miles13
Bradleyville4.2 miles13
Eastview (historical)5.2 miles11
Hercules6.4 miles11
Fairview10.9 miles11
Taneyville11.4 miles14
Hilda12.1 miles13
Swan12.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 749046. 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.