Browntown, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Cave Junction census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97530. It stands on Low Gap Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grayback Mountain quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Browntown within Josephine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1908 USGS Grants Pass quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Oregon Caves quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Medford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Medford quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Medford quadrangle1:250000
1987 USGS Grayback Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Grants Pass quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Grayback Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Browntown (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,268 acres in total. 69 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
Natural	69
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	GRIZZLY
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	ELK HORN
5 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	WHISKEY
5 September 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	LEWIS
4 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
29 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
17 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Grants Pass Unit	WING DAM GULCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Josephine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 67 workings within 5 miles of Browntown (historical): 30 occurrences, 16 past producers, 15 prospects, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Mercury, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Arnold Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Arnold Mine	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Brown Town Mine	PGE, Iron	Prospect
Larkspur	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Rhodonite
Laurel Claims	Silver, Tungsten	Occurrence	Scheelite
Mocks Gulch Prospect	Tungsten, Mercury	Prospect
Carberry Creek Group	Limestone, General	Occurrence	Limestone
Carberry Creek Group	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Dawson-Murphy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dawson-Murphy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Josephine 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Williams	11.5 miles	16
California Bar	12.1 miles	16
Williamsburg (historical)	13.2 miles	16
Browntown	13.6 miles	17
Holland	15.5 miles	17
Althouse (historical)	17.4 miles	17
Bridgeview	18.8 miles	17
Takilma	18.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1158144. 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.