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Brownington, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64740. It stands on Big Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lowry City quadrangle. 71 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Brownington within Henry County

Population over time

2 figures

Brownington fell from 107 to 71 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010107
202071-36 (-34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Brownington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,458 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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/incendiarism38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2013Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220635-02222-08252020-1505
22 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined133 acresMissouri Department of ConservationKNISLEY SOUTH
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism460 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 August 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220573-02222-07222020-1515

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Brownington: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Iron, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - FlagstoneStone, DimensionPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Davis Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kneiskey Ls. MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ss.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownington in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBrownington1 hurt, $25,000Mobile home park had damage. There was also damage to several barns and numerous trees were downed.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBrownington-Downed power lines and power outages in Brownington.
June 2015Flash FloodBrownington-As vehicle 1 was traveling eastbound and became immersed into swift flowing water on the roadway, it was swept from the north side of the roadway traveling across a concrete barrier. Vehicle 1 overturned and traveled northbound in swift water before striking a large pile of tree debris, becoming lodged in the debris. Vehicle 1 came to rest under the debris pile on its top.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBrownington-Tree branches up to 6 inches in diameter were downed by thunderstorm winds.
April 2006HailBrownington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Consville (historical)0.1 miles20
Deepwater2.8 miles18
Gaines4.3 miles18
Mount Zion4.9 miles20
Sparrow6.3 miles18
Coal7.9 miles18
Alberta8.6 miles18
Clinton9.0 miles18

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 Q963851The 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 714798. 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.