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Brownsville, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45767. It stands on Pigeonroost Run. The Survey maps it on the New Matamoras quadrangle.

Brownsville within Monroe County

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 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 2002
Topographic sheet of Brownsville, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 1999

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Brownsville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 19 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 burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4672
1 April 2015Debris and open burning3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources651
31 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresWayne National ForestOLD CAMP ROAD
31 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources648
31 March 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySISTERVILLE
26 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWayne National ForestJERICHO GAP FIRE
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestBROWN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 326 shown

Museums hold 326 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brownsville between 1860 and 1975: 306 Animalia, 9 Fungi, 9 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 Taphrina sacchari JenkinsTaphrina sacchari Jenkins1922O.L. InmanAntioch College
Specimen of Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863Bombus affinis Cresson, 18631968L. Macior[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Terrapene carolina, not of this specimenTerrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1860David M. Dennis3 mi. N Graysville
A photograph of the species Arenaria serpyllifolia, not of this specimenArenaria serpyllifolia L.1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry.
A photograph of the species Dysphania botrys, not of this specimenDysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry.
unnamed (fossil)1914Collector UnknownWoodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1921Ortmann, Arnold EWoodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork
Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd.1928Archer, W. A.Greenbrier
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Ohio River tributary, within north of Fly in Jackson township, near Sistersville, Jackson township
A photograph of the species Micropterus punctulatus, not of this specimenMicropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River, within south Washington township, near Brownsville, Washington township
A photograph of the species Natrix septemvittata, not of this specimenNatrix septemvittata (Say, 1825)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Washington Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio

All 326 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brownsville: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
West Virginian DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Wahanaker1.4 miles18
Jericho2.3 miles18
Poulton2.3 miles18
Trail Run (historical)2.7 miles18
Rinard Mills3.8 miles16
Greenbrier3.9 miles17
Mechanicsburg3.9 miles17
Centerview (historical)4.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075453. 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.