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Bremen, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Rush Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43107. It stands on Little Rush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bremen quadrangle. 1,479 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Bremen within Fairfield County

Population over time

2 figures

Bremen grew from 1,425 to 1,479 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,425
20201,479+54 (+4%)

Then and now

1907 to 1992

The 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 sheet of Bremen, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Bremen, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

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

13 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Bremen between 2012 and 2020, burning about 55 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 burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
22 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15676
2 April 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15468
30 March 2013Debris and open burning8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources362
28 February 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 February 2012Debris and open burning25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 941 shown

Museums hold 941 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bremen between 1839 and 1975: 381 Animalia, 338 Fungi, 212 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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.

All 941 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

25 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Bremen in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado, 2 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
September 2000Tornado (F1)Bremen$150,000A tornado touched down in the eastern part of the county causing damage to a home and garage.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Bremen$50,000A weak tornado touched down briefly knocking down trees, destroying a shed,and damaging farm machinery.
May 2025Flash FloodBremen$20,000Rushing water blocked the intersection to a road and washed out a culvert.
July 2025Flash FloodBremen$20,000Rushing water pushed debris up against the inlet of a culvert, causing water to back up and wash out the roadway.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBremen$20,000A mobile home sustained structural damage due to a fallen tree. A log cabin on Webb Summit Road sustained roof damage from the strong winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBremen$12,000A barn was destroyed when it collapsed.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBremen$10,000Multiple trees were knocked down across Rush Creek Township.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBremen$8,000A barn was destroyed and a house received some minor damage.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindBremen$8,000A barn had a portion of its roof removed. A couple of trees were knocked down as well.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindBremen$3,000A power pole was downed along with some large tree limbs.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBremen$3,000Several trees were downed in the Bremen area.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBremen$3,000Several trees were downed at the intersection of State Routes 312 and 664.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBremen$3,000Multiple trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBremen$3,000Several trees were downed.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBremen$3,000Traffic signals were blown down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBremen$2,000Numerous large tree limbs were knocked down on Lake Road between County Road 51 and OH-37.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBremen$2,000Trees were reported down on Ohio Route 37 near the Perry County line.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBremen$1,000Large tree limbs were knocked down in isolated spots on OH-37 between Zion Road and Lake Road.
February 2019FloodBremen$1,000High water covered a portion of Holliday Road in Rushcreek Township resulting in a vehicle being swept into a ditch full of water. No injuries were reported.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBremen$1,000A tree fell onto a road.
May 2012Flash FloodBremen$1,000Street flooding due to heavy rain was reported on some of the roads in Bremen.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBremen$1,000A tree was reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2021FloodBremen-High water was reported on Broad Street.
May 2012Heavy RainBremen-Water was reported up to the curb on some roadways due to heavy rainfall.
June 1995HailBremen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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
Geneva2.8 miles13
North Berne3.8 miles13
Rushville4.3 miles12
West Rushville4.4 miles12
Pleasant Hill4.8 miles13
Colfax4.8 miles13
Swartz Mill6.0 miles13
Sandstone (historical)6.2 miles13

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 BremenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q282406The 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 1048544. 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.