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Browns Crossroads, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dudley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43326. It stands on Garwood Run. The Survey maps it on the Mount Victory quadrangle.

Browns Crossroads within Hardin County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 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 Crossroads, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Browns Crossroads, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 1883 county history

35,913 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Dudley Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Dudley Township - 35,913 words.

Fires nearby

3 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Browns Crossroads between 2002 and 2002, 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
Recreation and ceremony3

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
31 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 July 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 July 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 124 shown

Museums hold 124 specimens collected within 10 miles of Browns Crossroads between 1882 and 1970: 104 Animalia, 19 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W SHARER, Angle, E. (Eric), Anson A. Hinkley 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 Poria medulla-panis (Jacq.) CookePoria medulla-panis (Jacq.) Cooke1906Penfield, O.; C. B. WilsonRidgeway
Specimen of Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.1923W.G. StoverKenton
Specimen of Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1939J. PeltonPond near Kenton
A photograph of the species Meleagris gallopavo, not of this specimenMeleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 18171882W.C. HamptonMt. Victory
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis var. phlei-pratensis (Erikss. & Henn.) Stakman & Piem.1908Clinton; BirdMt. Victory
A photograph of the species Guignardia bidwellii, not of this specimenGuignardia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1910Heckathorne H. E.Kenton
A photograph of the species Laestadia bidwellii, not of this specimenLaestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1910Heckathorne H. E.Kenton
A photograph of the species Puccinia asterum, not of this specimenPuccinia asterum (Schwein.) F.Kern1913Bartholomew E.Kenton
A photograph of the species Puccinia caricis-solidaginis, not of this specimenPuccinia caricis-solidaginis Arthur1913E. BartholomewKenton
A photograph of the species Puccinia dioicae, not of this specimenPuccinia dioicae Magnus1913Bartholomew, Elam TKenton
A photograph of the species Puccinia extensicola, not of this specimenPuccinia extensicola Plowr.1913E. BartholomewKenton.
Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)1914Anson A. HinkleyScioto River, Kenton, near headwaters, North America

All 124 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Otterbein1.6 miles11
Pfeiffer1.9 miles10
Mentzer3.1 miles11
Hepburn3.2 miles10
Grassy Point4.5 miles11
Mount Victory4.7 miles11
Marshs (historical)5.3 miles10
Kenton5.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062669. 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.