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

Brentwood Estates, Ohio

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cross Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43953. It stands on Cedar Lick Run. The Survey maps it on the Steubenville West quadrangle.

Brentwood Estates within Jefferson County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brentwood Estates, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Brentwood Estates, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

24 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 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Brentwood Estates between 2003 and 2020, burning about 37 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1781
9 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12885
7 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 531 shown

Museums hold 531 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brentwood Estates between 1836 and 1974: 311 Animalia, 177 Plantae, 42 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, A.W. Cusick 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 Vitis aestivalis Michx.Vitis aestivalis Michx.1836Jewett
Specimen of Puccinia monardae J.W.BaxterPuccinia monardae J.W.Baxter1896AshcraftNear Middleburg
Specimen of Polygonum erectum L.Polygonum erectum L.1902Kellerman, W.A.Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Carex hirsutella, not of this specimenCarex hirsutella Mack.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum subsp. fasciculatum (Torr.) Freckmann & Lelong1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium latifolium, not of this specimenDichanthelium latifolium (L.) Harvill1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon, not of this specimenDichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Elymus hystrix, not of this specimenElymus hystrix L.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Fagus grandifolia, not of this specimenFagus grandifolia Ehrh.1877Guttenberg, H.G.Wellsburg
A photograph of the species Galium circaezans, not of this specimenGalium circaezans Michx.1877Guttenberg, G.near Steubenville
A photograph of the species Hypericum mutilum, not of this specimenHypericum mutilum L.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Hypericum punctatum, not of this specimenHypericum punctatum Lam.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville

All 531 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Brentwood Estates in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindBrentwood Estates$50,000The public reported numerous trees down or snapped around Brentwood.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBrentwood Estates$25,000A trained spotter reported large trees down along SR 22 near Wintersville.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindBrentwood Estates$15,000The Herald-Star Newspaper reports that a tractor-trailer overturned on route 43 near the Jefferson County Garage complex.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBrentwood Estates$10,000Trees were reported to be blown down near Route 43.
March 2026HailBrentwood Estates-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Swickards Addition0.3 miles24
Green Acres0.3 miles24
Forest View0.6 miles24
Canellas Park0.9 miles23
Reeds Mill1.0 miles24
Stuart Manor1.3 miles24
Winterdale1.3 miles24
Beechwood1.5 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062408. 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.