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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Braceville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Braceville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44444. It stands on Ridge Hill. The Survey maps it on the Newton Falls quadrangle.

Braceville within Trumbull County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Braceville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Braceville, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 nearby

6 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Braceville between 2019 and 2019, burning about 16 acres 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
29 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15316
23 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15315
21 June 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15314
8 April 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15312
13 April 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15313
20 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15310

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trumbull County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 132 shown

Museums hold 132 specimens collected within 10 miles of Braceville between 1890 and 1973: 95 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. N. Rood, Almon N. Rood, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Alternaria panax WhetzelAlternaria panax Whetzel1909W.P. WarrenGarden of Warren
Specimen of Pleosphaerulina briosiana PollacciPleosphaerulina briosiana Pollacci1927F.R. Jones; J.J. DavisNewton
Specimen of Asclepias tuberosa L.Asclepias tuberosa L.1928Rood, Almon N.Braceville Tp.,
A photograph of the species Obovaria unicolor, not of this specimenObovaria unicolor (I.Lea, 1845)1890Dean, G WNewton Falls, mill pond
A photograph of the species Neogale Gray, not of this specimenNeogale Gray, 18651894William Harvey BrownWARREN
A photograph of the species Poa alsodes, not of this specimenPoa alsodes A.Gray1907Webb, R.J.; Rood, A.N.Braceville Twp
A photograph of the species Amelanchier arborea, not of this specimenAmelanchier arborea var. laevis (Wiegand) H.E.Ahles1908Rood, A.N.Phalanx, Braceville Twp
A photograph of the species Centaurea nigrescens, not of this specimenCentaurea nigrescens Willd.1908Rood, A.N.Phalanx
A photograph of the species Desmodium canadense, not of this specimenDesmodium canadense (L.) DC.1908Rood, A.M.Newton Twp., Mohoning R. N of Newton Falls
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1908Rood, A.N.Phalanx, Braceville Twp., West Swamp
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1909not recordedNewton Falls, lesser branch above city
A photograph of the species Catocala piatrix, not of this specimenCatocala piatrix Grote, 18641911Zahrobsky, C. A. (Charles A.)Warren, Trumbull Co., OH, U.S.A.

All 132 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

12 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Braceville in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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 2002HailBraceville$50,000Nickel to golf ball size hail was reported.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBraceville$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindBraceville$5,000A downburst downed trees and power lines.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBraceville-Widespread tree damage in Braceville.
January 2019FloodBraceville-The Eagle Creek in Braceville Ohio crested at 12.8 feet on the evening of the 24th. The flooding as exasperated by river ice which resulted in more significant flooding on area roads than a stage of 12.8 feet would normally support. The most impacted roads were Eagle Creek Road, Braceville Robinson Road, and Barclay Messerly Road.
May 2011Flash FloodBraceville-Several days of heavy rain had led to saturated ground and swollen creeks and streams across Trumbull County. On the 14th line of thunderstorms brought an additional inch to an inch and a half of rainfall. This rainfall became almost enirely runoff, which rapidly flooded low lying and poor drainage areas. A car became stuck on the road on RT 40 near Leavittsburg, where water was also entering apartment buildings. Several roads had to be closed.
August 2011HailBraceville-Penny sized hail was observed.
September 2011HailBraceville-Quarter sized hail was observed.
September 2011HailBraceville-Quarter sized hail was observed.
April 2006HailBraceville-Penny size hail was observed.
June 2004HailBraceville-Penny size hail was observed.
April 1998HailBraceville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trumbull 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
Braceville Ridge1.2 miles13
Arhaven Estates1.4 miles13
Shihold2.2 miles12
Center World2.4 miles13
West View2.5 miles13
Phalanx2.6 miles12
Rose Park2.6 miles13
Arlington Heights3.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064473. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.