Brimfield, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1994

Brimfield grew from 3,248 to 3,365 between 2000 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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.

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.

• 1906 USGS Kent quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Suffield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Suffield quadrangle1:24000

History of Portage County, Ohio, published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Brimfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 728 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brimfield between 1883 and 1975: 470 Animalia, 224 Plantae, 31 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. F. Clewell, A. K. Wyatt 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
	Frankiella alni (Woronin) Maire & A.Tison	1910	Rankin; H.H. Whetzel
	Stereum frustulatum (Pers.) Fr.	1910	H.H. Whetzel
	Valsaria exasperans (W.R.Gerard) Sacc.	1910	Whetzel; Rankin
	Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898	1883	John C. Catlin	Ravenna
	Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1883	John C. Catlin	Ravenna
	Glaucomys volans volans (Linnaeus, 1758)	1889	C. P. Streator	Ravenna
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
	Cambarus propinquus Girard, 1852	1893	Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Kent
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
	Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1893	A. Woolman	Kent, Ohio
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio

All 728 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Brimfield: 7 past producers, 6 producers, 1 plant. 7 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.

Every working recorded in Portage County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brimfield in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning. 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.

Every storm recorded in Portage County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064494. 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.

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.