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Brighton, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brighton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44090. The Survey maps it on the Brighton quadrangle.
Then and now
1908 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1908 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1908 USGS New London quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,593 shownMuseums hold 1,593 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brighton between 1852 and 1975: 918 Animalia, 482 Fungi, 164 Plantae, 13 Chromista, 12 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Recksecker, A. E. Ricksecker, A. M. Evans 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Cantharellus minor Peck | 1896 | F.D. Kelsey | Near Oberlin |
 | Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr. | 1896 | Kelsey, Francis Duncan | Kipton |
 | Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt | 1899 | Ricksecker, A.E. | Wood 4 miles south of Oberlin. |
 | Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. | 1852 | Drège | |
| Uncinula flexuosa Peck | 1872 | F.D. Kelsey | Oberlin | |
 | Parus bicolor Linnaeus, 1766 | 1874 | Woods, N. W. | Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
 | Agrostemma githago L. | 1885 | Harper, R.A. | Oberlin |
 | Cercospora incarnata Henn. | 1885 | F. D. Kelsey | |
 | Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898 | 1885 | McCormick, L. M. | Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
 | Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1885 | McCormick, L. M. | Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
 | Medeola virginiana L. | 1885 | Harper, R.A. | Oberlin |
 | Mertensia virginica (L.) Pers. ex Link | 1885 | Harper, R.A. | Oberlin |
All 1,593 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
6 since 1998The National Weather Service names Brighton in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Brighton | $500,000 | Flash flooding in and around Wellington. Lorain County Fairgrounds inundated with more than a foot of standing water, flooding cars and livestock trailers in the fairgrounds parking area, and several barns on the fairground property. Some basement flooding reported in Wellington. OH-18 closed west of Wellington between Oh-511 and Quarry Road and east of Wellington between Hawley Road and West Road. Radar estimated 3 to 4 inches of rainfall in a three hour period. |
| November 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brighton | $200,000 | Thunderstorm downburst winds estimated to be at least 75 mph caused extensive damage across southwestern Lorain County. Damage was observed from the Huron County line east across Rochester, Brighton and Cambden Townships. Damage was observed as far north as Kipton. The damage was most concentrated along and west of State Route 511 from near Brighton north to State Route 303. Six homes and buildings on Gore-Orphanage, Baird and Betts roads were damaged by the strong winds. All of these buildings had west facing overhead garage doors which were blown in. Significant roof and tree damage was also observed. Nearly every property along State Route 511 north from Brighton to near Bronson Road had visible storm damage. At least one farm building was leveled and all of the homes in the area had missing siding, missing roofing or both. Dozens of trees were downed and unharvested cornfields along State Route 511 between Peck Wadsworth and Betts Roads were flattened. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Brighton | $5,000 | Penny to quarter size hail was observed. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brighton | $4,000 | Trees were also downed in Wellington. |
| August 2023 | Flood | Brighton | - | Flooding from standing water at Lorain County Fairgrounds and remaining road closures in and around Wellington after the initial flash flooding subsided. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brighton | - | Several branches and whole trees snapped near the intersection of OH-18 and Gore Orphanage Road just west of Brighton. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Camden | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Wellington | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Semples | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Pittsfield | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Huntington | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Kipton | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Pheasant Run Village | 8.6 miles | 12 |
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 Brighton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22695658 | 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 1064492. 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.
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.