Brownsville, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Huntington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45601. The Survey maps it on the Chillicothe West quadrangle.
Then and now
1912 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1912 USGS Roxabell quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Roxabell quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Roxabell quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Chillicothe West quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Chillicothe West quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Chillicothe West quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Chillicothe West quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
44 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Brownsville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 115 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 burning | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14305 |
| 7 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1204 |
| 7 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 7.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15214 |
| 30 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14307 |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12406 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,404 shownMuseums hold 1,404 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brownsville between 1874 and 1975: 919 Animalia, 398 Fungi, 75 Plantae, 8 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. C. Lincoln, A. Miller 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813 | 1895 | F. L. S. | Ross County |
![]() | Puccinia tanaceti DC. | 1895 | F. L. Stevens | Ross County |
![]() | Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC. | 1895 | F. L. Stevens | Ross County |
![]() | Euaesthetus iripennis Casey, 1884 | 1874 | [Not Stated] | [Not Stated] |
![]() | Myrmedonia loricata Casey, 1893 | 1874 | [Not Stated] | [Not Stated] |
![]() | Passiflora lutea L. | 1885 | Safford, William Edwin | Chillicothe |
![]() | Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle | 1896 | Selby, A. D. | Chillicothe |
| Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc. | 1896 | Selby A. D. | Chillicothe | |
![]() | Elanoides forficatus forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1898 | Seip, J. (John) | Near Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1901 | not recorded | Ross, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Lophophanes Kaup, 1829 | 1901 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Ross, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm. | 1902 | Hard, Miron | Chillicothe |
All 1,404 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
4 since 2013The National Weather Service names Brownsville in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brownsville | $4,000 | Numerous trees were reported knocked down in Huntington Township. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brownsville | $3,000 | There were several reports of large branches down across roadways in Huntington Township due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brownsville | $1,000 | One tree was downed on Blain Highway near State Route 772. |
| April 2018 | Flood | Brownsville | - | High water resulted in a closure of part of State Route 772 near Rinehart Rd. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yankeetown | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| Newingburg (historical) | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Knockemstiff | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Summithill | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Massieville | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Denver | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Belleview Heights | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 4.9 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048560. 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.
























