BlockBrowns, Missouri
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rocky Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65202. The Survey maps it on the Browns quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1917 USGS Sturgeon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Browns quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Rocky Fork township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
History Op Boone Cottntt Miscellaneous
About twenty years since Mr. Wm. Watts was accidently shot and killed. The incident happened in the eastern part of this township. He and another man named Watkins were herding cattle, and while the two were carelessly handling a gun it was accidentally discharged and Watts was killed.
In the county-history sources
20,830 words on this townshipHistory of Boone County, Missouri, published 1882; The Bench and Bar of Boone County, Missouri; Including the History of Judges, Lawyers, and Courts, and an Account of Noted Cases, Slavery Litigation, Lawyers in War Times, Public Addresses, Political Notes, Etc, published 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Rocky Fork Township covers position and description, early history, first settlers, etc, miscellaneous, incidento of the civil war, the fight at mt zion and near hallsville, capture and escape of john roberts.
Read the chapter on Rocky Fork Township - 20,830 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Browns: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Clay | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Browns in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Lightning | Browns | 1 killed | Lightning struck and killed a woman who was walking across an open field after fishing on one of the lakes at the Rocky Fork Lakes Conservation Area north of Columbia. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browns | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds snapped off a medium sized tree. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Browns | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephens | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Lebanon (historical) | 2.5 miles | 18 | |
| Switzler | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Prathersville | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Hinton | 4.2 miles | 19 | |
| Murry | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Hallsville | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| Middleton | 5.1 miles | 19 |
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 Browns | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27983980 | The 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 714801. 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.
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.