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Brownsville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Bowling Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43721. It stands on Eagle Nest Hill. The Survey maps it on the Glenford quadrangle. 214 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Brownsville within Licking County

Population over time

2 figures

Brownsville fell from 220 to 214 between 2010 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. 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.

YearPeople Change
2010220
2020214-6 (-3%)

Then and now

1909 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brownsville, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Brownsville, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

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.

Fires nearby

10 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Brownsville between 2012 and 2020, burning about 28 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 burning8
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 July 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15769
12 April 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7908
9 March 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7411
30 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources664
22 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources665
13 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11926
13 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11925
11 March 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 161 shown

Museums hold 161 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brownsville between 1893 and 1975: 149 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bogue, E.E., Buker, W., CALVIN GOODRICH AND PARTY 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 Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.1893Jones, H.L.Toboso
A photograph of the species Cladonia symphycarpa, not of this specimenCladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr.1894Bogue, E.E.Black Hand
A photograph of the species Lysimachia quadriflora, not of this specimenLysimachia quadriflora Sims1894Moseley, E.L.Licking Gorge
A photograph of the species Smilax herbacea, not of this specimenSmilax herbacea L.1894Moseley, E.L.Licking Gorge
A photograph of the species Puccinia muhlenbergiae, not of this specimenPuccinia muhlenbergiae Arthur & Holw.1902W. A. KellermanBuckeye Lake
A photograph of the species Uromyces Unger, not of this specimenUromyces (Link) Unger, 18331902W. A. KellermanBuckeye Lake
A photograph of the species Notropis deliciosus, not of this specimenNotropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)1920Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Licking River, at Claylick, ~2.3 mi SW of Hanover, Madison township
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461926not recordedCold Springs, within Licking Co (location in doubt), Licking County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1926Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)Flint Ridge, Licking Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541928Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Buckeye Lake, Perry Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Pseudacris crucifer, not of this specimenPseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)1928Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Buckeye Lake, Perry Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Pseudacris triseriata, not of this specimenPseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)1928Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Buckeye Lake, Perry Co., Ohio

All 161 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Brownsville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Walters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Walters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Licking County

Storms nearby

4 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Brownsville in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 2004Tornado (F1)Brownsville$10,000A tornado briefly touched down near Brownsville. Several large trees were uprooted, and a parked car and swing set sustained minor damage.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$5,000Multiple trees were knocked down on Flint Ridge Rd.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$3,000Numerous trees downed.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$500Several trees were knocked down at Route U.S. 40 and Open Woods Road.

Every storm recorded in Licking 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
Gratiot2.2 miles12
Linnville4.6 miles12
Amsterdam6.5 miles14
Toboso7.8 miles11
Claylick7.9 miles12
Edgewater Beach8.3 miles14
Jacksontown8.3 miles14
Fleatown8.5 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on BrownsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472932The 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 1048310. 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.