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

Browns Chapel, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in German Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45327. The Survey maps it on the Middletown quadrangle.

Browns Chapel within Montgomery County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Browns Chapel, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Browns Chapel, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the 1882 county history

34,122 words on this township

The county history of 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on German Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on German Township - 34,122 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 84 shown

Museums hold 84 specimens collected within 10 miles of Browns Chapel between 1835 and 1969: 64 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, ATW, Belk, E.; Ellis, J. 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
Specimen of Hypericum mutilum subsp. mutilumHypericum mutilum subsp. mutilum1835Joseph C. FrankGermantown
Specimen of Dryopteris cristata (L.) A.GrayDryopteris cristata (L.) A.Gray1898Young, H.W.Farmersville
Specimen of Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1929?Hueston Woods.
A photograph of the species Scirpus polyphyllus, not of this specimenScirpus polyphyllus Vahl1888E. S. SteeleCarlisle.
A photograph of the species Malva moschata, not of this specimenMalva moschata L.1889ATWCarlisle
A photograph of the species Phlox divaricata, not of this specimenPhlox divaricata L.1890Henry C. CowlesCarlisle.
A photograph of the species Peronospora parasitica, not of this specimenPeronospora parasitica (Pers.) De Bary1907Scheible, E.Miamisburg
A photograph of the species Rhizoctonia DC., not of this specimenRhizoctonia DC.1907Gilbert W. W.Germantown
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1908E. E. HuneanMiamisburg
A photograph of the species Phyllactinia corylea, not of this specimenPhyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.1908see Collection NoteMiamisburg
Stenocrepis cuprea (Chaudoir, 1843)1921ChamberlainMiamisburg
A photograph of the species Puccinia sorghi, not of this specimenPuccinia sorghi Schwein.1926Overholts L. O.Germantown

All 84 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Browns Chapel in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 2021Tornado (EF1)Browns Chapel$50,000The tornado initially touched down on the west side of Puddenbag Road, south of Barlow Road and damaged several groves of trees before crossing Puddenbag Road and snapping and uprooting several more groves of trees on the east side of Puddenbag Road. The tornado crossed in front of a farmstead and snapped and uprooted a number of trees in front of the residence. It was at this location where tree damage was estimated to be caused by winds in the 90-95 mph range. The tornado continued southeast to Oxford Road where roofing material was lifted from a home on the north side of the road and a barn on the south side of the road, while also continuing to cause considerable tree damage. The tornado then continued southeast and moved into Butler County about 0.8 miles south southwest of Browns Chapel. The tornado continued to move southeast across far northern Butler County before lifting 1 mile northeast of Astoria at 19:43 EST.
March 2008FloodBrowns Chapel$5,000Several roads flooded across the county. Anthony Road in German Township flooded and closed.
June 2016FloodBrowns Chapel-Four inches of water covered Route 725 between Moyer Road and Browns Run Road.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Mudlick3.4 miles12
Germantown4.7 miles13
Sunbury4.7 miles13
Farmersville5.3 miles11
Chautauqua8.4 miles13
Bridgeport8.8 miles13
Ellerton9.1 miles13
Miamisburg9.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1071129. 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.