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

Brewster, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sugarcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44613. It stands on Middle Fork Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Navarre quadrangle. 2,113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Brewster within Stark County

Population over time

2 figures

Brewster grew from 2,112 to 2,113 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	2,112
2020	2,113	+1 (+0%)

Then and now

1914 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brewster, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Brewster, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

2 photographs, 2016

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.

A "Mail Pouch Barn" in Stark County, Ohio, near Brewster, featuring one of the hundreds of painted advertisements for the chewing tobacco that appeared throughout the American South and Midwest in the late-18th and early-20th centuries
Highsmith, Carol M, 2016. Library of Congress

Fires nearby

1 since 2018

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brewster between 2018 and 2018, burning about 1 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 burning	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
6 March 2018	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11645

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 158 shown

Museums hold 158 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brewster between 1875 and 1975: 148 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Borror, D.J., Bruce Fink 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
Gloeosporium venetum Speg.	1890	J.T. Rice
unnamed	1907	Bruce Fink
Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872	1940	not recorded	Navarre
Theliderma metanevra (Rafinesque, 1820)	1875	Sterki, Victor	Beach City
Lanius borealis borealis	1888	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Pooecetes gramineus gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1888	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Certhia americana americana Bonaparte, 1838	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Pines 3 miles s of Newman Springs
Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Icterus spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs

All 158 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 Brewster: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
County Line Sr 212 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Navarre Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Navarre Pit Mass. Washed Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Stark County

Storms nearby

12 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Brewster in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2017	Lightning	North Brewster	1 killed	An 82 year old man was struck by lightning and killed while working outside. This incident occurred just outside of Brewster.
June 2006	Tornado (F1)	Brewster	$1,500,000	A F1 tornado touched down just west of Brewster at 5:45 p.m. on June 22nd. This tornado tracked to the east northeast and finally lifted near Navarre. This tornado had a damage path roughly four miles in length and 50 to 75 yards in width. Extensive damage was done in Brewster, especially on the west side of the town. Five houses, two garages and one car were destroyed on West 4th Street with other homes elsewhere in Brewster sustaining lesser damages. Twelve mobile homes were also destroyed or damaged enough to be declared uninhabitable in Brewster. A local utility company had roughly $300,000 in damage and repair costs. The tornado continued to Navarre and finally lifted after damaging a few more homes and buildings. It was estimated that over a thousand trees were downed along the damage path with 400 reported down in Brewster and another 300 down in Navarre. Some of this damage may have been caused by straight line winds associated with the parent thunderstorm. Most of the structural damage along the path was caused by toppled trees. The City of Brewster alone spent $450,000 for clean up costs and repairs to city property.
March 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Brewster	$100,000	A NWS storm survey found an EF-0 tornado was on the ground for approximately 8.7 miles with estimated wind speeds up to 80 mph and a path width of 50 yards. Most of the damage associated with this tornado was uprooted trees and broken limbs, along with the occasional structure damage such as shingles and siding missing. The most significant structural damage occurred from at least 2 trees falling on houses.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Brewster	$30,000	A line of thunderstorms raced across the county, producing 60mph wind gusts. Multiple reports of downed large trees and tree branches came in during this event. Power outages were reported as a result of the downed trees on power lines.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Brewster	$4,000	Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2015	Hail	North Brewster	$3,000	Law enforcement reported quarter size hail in Brewster.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Brewster	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Brewster	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Brewster	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in Sugar Creek Township.
August 2011	Hail	Brewster	-	Nickel sized hail was reported.
May 1997	Hail	Brewster	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Brewster	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stark 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
Park Heights	0.0 miles	18
North Brewster	0.9 miles	18
Justus	1.0 miles	18
Elton	1.8 miles	18
Crossroads	1.9 miles	18
Harmon	2.1 miles	18
Camp Creek	2.3 miles	18
Pigeon Run	3.2 miles	18

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 Brewster	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q911453	The 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 1064485. 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.

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.