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

Brentwood, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45619. It stands on Symmes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle.

Brentwood within Lawrence County

Then and now

1892 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 90 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, surveyed 1982

Topographic sheet of Brentwood, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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

92 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Brentwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 245 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Arson/incendiarism	16
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	1
Other causes	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
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8546
13 June 2017	Other causes	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8526
4 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1404
23 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8406
13 May 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	RUSSELL CK. FIRE
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	13907
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	14485

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 852 shown

Museums hold 852 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brentwood between 1840 and 1974: 629 Animalia, 117 Plantae, 83 Fungi, 20 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer W. A., BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I, BARUCH 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter	1892	W.A. Kellerman	Symmes Creek
Polanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.	1840	Short, C.W.	along Ohio River
Eragrostis reptans (Michx.) Nees	1880	T Meehan
Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Big Sandy River, near mouth
Isoperla bilineata (Say, 1823)	1899	Nathan Banks
Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1900	not recorded	Guyandotte River
Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.	1903	Beale J. M.	Guyandotte
Coniothyrium fuckelii Sacc.	1904	Brooks Fred E.	Huntington
Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter	1904	Brooks F. E.	Huntington
Haematoloechus longiplexus Stafford, 1902	1905	Collector(s): Daniel R. Brooks, David Zamparo	Huntington
Cladosporium carpophilum Thüm.	1906	C.M. Davidson
Albugo bliti (Biv.) Kuntze	1909	Summers, T. B.	Huntington

All 852 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Brentwood: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Huntington Alloys Rolling Mill	Nickel	Producer
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Crescent Lake	0.7 miles	20
Rockwood	0.8 miles	20
Corryville	1.0 miles	20
Symmes Park	1.0 miles	20
Chesapeake	1.4 miles	20
Bradrick	1.8 miles	20
Sunny Acres	2.9 miles	20
Proctorville	3.3 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1050516. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.