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

Brailey, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Swan Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43558. It stands on Fewless Creek. The Survey maps it on the Swanton quadrangle.

Brailey within Fulton County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brailey, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Brailey, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

19 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Brailey between 2007 and 2019, burning about 35 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15218
16 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources904

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 91 shown

Museums hold 91 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brailey between 1924 and 1975: 76 Animalia, 14 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Conan J. Taylor, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T., E. Matzinger 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
A photograph of the species Speyeria idalia, not of this specimenSpeyeria idalia (Drury, 1773)1924Pardon S. RemingtonSwanton
A photograph of the species Carex tetanica, not of this specimenCarex tetanica Schkuhr1925Moseley, E.L.NW of Neapolis
A photograph of the species Platanthera flava, not of this specimenPlatanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer1926Moseley, E.L.Engles, S of Swanton
A photograph of the species Aureolaria pedicularia, not of this specimenAureolaria pedicularia var. ambigens (Fernald) Farw.1927Wherry, E.T.; Pennell, F.W.SE of Brailey
A photograph of the species Calamagrostis canadensis, not of this specimenCalamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) P.Beauv.1927Moseley, E.L.0.5 mi E of Brailey
A photograph of the species Carpiodes carpio, not of this specimenCarpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820)1927MB TroutmanBad Creek, near and at border.
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)1927MB TrautmanBad Creek, near and at border of Henry Co.
A photograph of the species Silene noctiflora, not of this specimenSilene noctiflora L.1927Moseley, E.P.near Swanton
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Swan Creek, near Swanton, ~1.6 mi S of Swanton, Swan Creek township
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Swan Creek, near Swanton, ~1.6 mi S of Swanton, Swan Creek township
A photograph of the species Notemigonus crysoleucas, not of this specimenNotemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Swan Creek, near Swanton, ~1.6 mi S of Swanton, Swan Creek township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Swan Creek, near Swanton, ~1.6 mi S of Swanton, Swan Creek township

All 91 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Brailey in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBrailey$20,000A tree fell onto an occupied van with 3 kids and 1 adult. No major injuries but occupants were covered in broken glass.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBrailey-Amateur radio operators reported a tree of unknown size was blown down, blocking a local road.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBrailey-Amateur radio operators reported the intersection of County Road 3 and E were closed due to down power lines and poles.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBrailey-A local utility company reported large branches fell onto a power line, resulting in the line breaking and pole snapping.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Peaceful Valley2.7 miles11
Swanton2.8 miles11
Swissaire Estates2.9 miles11
Raker Corners3.7 miles11
Maplewood Park4.0 miles11
South Delta4.1 miles11
Delta4.6 miles15
Swanton Meadows4.7 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122588898The 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 1064479. 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.