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Brandywine, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sagamore Hills Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44067. It stands on Stanford Run. The Survey maps it on the Northfield quadrangle. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Brandywine within Summit County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brandywine, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Brandywine, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

James Wallace Outbuilding, 8230 Brandywine Road, Northfield Center, Summit County, OH
James Wallace Outbuilding, 8230 Brandywine Road, Northfield Center, Summit County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

11 since 1993

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Brandywine between 1993 and 2012, burning about 4 acres in total. 2 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 burning3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 August 2012Naturalunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkRIVERVIEW ROAD
16 June 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkQUICK
15 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkKEEBLER
22 May 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkLEDGES
17 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkBOSTON
5 April 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkGOOD
2 April 2001Natural2.0 acresCuyahoga Valley National ParkPINEHOLLOW
19 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkSTUMPY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 753 shown

Museums hold 753 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brandywine between 1877 and 1973: 718 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 11 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Black, A. Hall, Adams J. M. R. 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 Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893C. RutterCuyahoga River, Penisula, Ohio
Specimen of Bombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)Bombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)1904W. WarnerCuyahoga Falls
Specimen of Sphaerium simile (Say, 1817)Sphaerium simile (Say, 1817)1928not recordedBrandywine Brook, Hudson, North America
A photograph of the species Empidonax flaviventris, not of this specimenEmpidonax flaviventris (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843)1877A. HallCuyahoga
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1887B. SanfordHudson
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1889Reade M. C.Hudson
A photograph of the species Scolopax minor, not of this specimenScolopax minor J.F.Gmelin, 17891892Beryl HodgeHudson
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedPeninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1893not recordedSilver Lake
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893WoolmanCuyahoga River, Peninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis gibbosus, not of this specimenLepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedSilver Lake, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191893not recordedSilver Lake, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

All 753 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Boston1.4 miles15
Little York1.5 miles15
Boston Heights1.5 miles15
Peninsula2.5 miles21
Northfield Center2.6 miles15
Bosworth (historical)2.9 miles15
Sagamore Hills2.9 miles15
Macedonia3.0 miles15

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 BrandywineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4957296The 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 1071111. 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.