Brady, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43725. It stands on Beeham Run. The Survey maps it on the Old Washington quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
17 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.
- 1909 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:48000
- 1909 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Old Washington quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Old Washington quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Old Washington quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS Old Washington quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Old Washington quadrangle1:24000
In the 1911 county history
2,022 words on this townshipThe county history of 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Jefferson Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Jefferson Township - 2,022 words.
Fires nearby
13 since 2013The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Brady between 2013 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1281 |
| 8 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 April 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15174 |
| 15 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15652 |
| 30 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7626 |
| 11 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14408 |
| 1 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 344 shownMuseums hold 344 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brady between 1875 and 1975: 136 Fungi, 120 Animalia, 84 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W.; Adams, S. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis. | 1902 | F.O. Grover | Black Swamp |
![]() | Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc. | 1922 | F. O. Grover | Black swamp |
![]() | Clavaria kunzei Fr. | 1923 | Treat, Dorothy | Birmingham |
![]() | Asclepias tuberosa L. | 1875 | s.c. | Fairmont |
![]() | Enslenia albida Nutt. | 1875 | s.c. | Fairmont |
![]() | Impatiens pallida Nutt. | 1875 | Lloyd, Curtis Gates | Fairmont |
![]() | Stereum spadiceum (Pers.) Quél. | 1893 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
| Favolus europaeus Fr. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill | |
![]() | Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
![]() | Pleurotus nidulans (Pers.) P.Kumm. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
![]() | Polystictus versicolor (L.) Fr. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
![]() | Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
All 344 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clio (historical) | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Warrentown | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| Center | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Winterset | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Old Washington | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Coventry Estates | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Odell | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Easton | 4.6 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062659. 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.



























