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

Brookfield, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brookfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44403. The Survey maps it on the Sharon West quadrangle. It stands 1,158 feet above sea level.

Brookfield within Trumbull County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Brookfield, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Brookfield, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

2 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Brookfield between 2019 and 2020, burning about 2 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 burning2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15692
24 October 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15323

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trumbull County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 90 shown

Museums hold 90 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brookfield between 1899 and 1975: 61 Animalia, 29 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Newton, M. K. Thayer, Almon N. Rood, Brown, Fred 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Perlesta decipiens, not of this specimenPerlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862)1899R. C. OsburnFowlerville
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1925Lyle D. MillerHubbard
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1928Lyle D. MillerHubbard
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Mosquito Creek tributary, within Ashatabula Co, Trumbull County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Mosquito Creek tributary, within Ashatabula Co, Trumbull County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Mosquito Creek tributary, within Ashatabula Co, Trumbull County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Pimephales notatus, not of this specimenPimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Mosquito Creek tributary, within Ashatabula Co, Trumbull County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Mosquito Creek tributary, within Ashatabula Co, Trumbull County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1929MB Trautman & asstPymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1929MB Trautman & asst.Small trib of the Shenango River, Hubbard Twp.
A photograph of the species Culaea inconstans, not of this specimenCulaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)small tributary (Mud Run) of Shenango River, (at N Main Street), at Hubbard OH, Hubbard Township
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929MB Trautman & asstPymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp

All 90 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

16 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Brookfield in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2010Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$200,000A thunderstorm downburst affected the southeastern corner of Trumbull County. Dozens of trees were downed in Liberty, Vienna, Brookfield and Hubbard Townships. Several homes were damaged by fallen trees in Brookfield and Hubbard. Several roads had to be closed because of downed trees. Scattered power outages were reported as well.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$75,000Thunderstorm winds downed between 40 and 50 trees in Brookfield Township.
August 1994Tornado (F0)Brookfield$50,000A small tornado touched down near a trailer park and was witnessed by several residents. Roof damage occurred to two of the mobile homes and a number of other mobile homes had damage to siding, awnings and skirting.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in and around Brookfield.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in Brookfield Township.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBrookfield$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree branches.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBrookfield-Trees downed in Brookfield.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBrookfield-Numerous trees and power lines downed in Brookfield Center.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBrookfield-Trees down in Brookfield Center.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindBrookfield-Fire department dispatch reported two utility poles down along Warren-Sharon Road in Brookfield Center; one near First National Bank and the other just west of Yankee Run Golf Course.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBrookfield-Trees fell and damaged five homes in Brookfield Center. Multiple structures sustained damage, including shingles and chimney caps ripped off.
May 2012HailBrookfield-Penny sized hail was observed.
April 2006HailBrookfield-Penny size hail was observed.
September 1997Flash FloodBrookfield-Heavy thunderstorm rain caused small stream flooding and flooding at St. Rts. 7 and 82 at Brookfield Center, where two feet of water covered the road.

Every storm recorded in Trumbull 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Brookfield Center0.8 miles15
Yankee Hills1.1 miles15
Salow Corners1.8 miles15
Yankee Lake2.3 miles13
Brookfield Acres2.3 miles15
Masury2.3 miles15
Paynes Corner2.5 miles15
Walnut Hill (historical)2.6 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q136323640The 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 1060894. 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.

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.