Brittain, 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

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
• 1906 USGS Kent quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000

Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908 names this settlement in its chapter on Akron City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brittain between 2014 and 2014, burning about 0 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Akron
• Arlington
• Bettes Corners
• Botzum
• Cascade (historical)
• Copley Junction

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 720 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brittain between 1867 and 1975: 608 Animalia, 65 Plantae, 45 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (no collector listed), A. Black, 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Botrychium virginianum subsp. virginianum	1888	Wright, A.A.	Tallmadge.
	Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.	1889	Foltz, Kent O.	Sand Run Park; Akron
	Asclepias verticillata L.	1889	not recorded	Akron
	Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)	1867	Collector(s): James Lee Peters	Akron
	Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs	1880	F. O. Payne	Akron
	Geum aleppicum Jacq.	1887	Elliott	Greensburg
	Geum canadense Jacq.	1887	Elliott	Greensburg
	Hydrastis canadensis L.	1888	E.L. Sturtevant II
	Lonicera dioica L.	1888	K. O. Foltz
	Penstemon hirsutus (L.) Willd.	1888	K. O. Foltz
	Agrimonia gryposepala Wallr.	1889	Elliott	Greensburg
	Carex pensylvanica Lam.	1889	Foltz, K.O.	Akron

All 720 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Brittain: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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 Summit County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brittain in 7 storm reports between 2019 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

Every storm recorded in Summit County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056722. 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.