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

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.

Brownsville within Ross County

Then and now

1912 to 1986

The 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 sheet of Brownsville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Brownsville, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

44 since 2006

The 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony2
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
16 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources14305
7 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1204
7 May 2008Debris and open burning7.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15214
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources14307
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12406

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,404 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131895F. L. S.Ross County
Specimen of Puccinia tanaceti DC.Puccinia tanaceti DC.1895F. L. StevensRoss County
Specimen of Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.1895F. L. StevensRoss County
A photograph of the species Euaesthetus iripennis, not of this specimenEuaesthetus iripennis Casey, 18841874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Myrmedonia loricata, not of this specimenMyrmedonia loricata Casey, 18931874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Passiflora lutea, not of this specimenPassiflora lutea L.1885Safford, William EdwinChillicothe
A photograph of the species Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae, not of this specimenAlbugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle1896Selby, A. D.Chillicothe
Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc.1896Selby A. D.Chillicothe
A photograph of the species Elanoides forficatus, not of this specimenElanoides forficatus forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Seip, J. (John)Near Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1901not recordedRoss, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophophanes Kaup, not of this specimenLophophanes Kaup, 18291901Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Armillaria mellea, not of this specimenArmillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm.1902Hard, MironChillicothe

All 1,404 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2013

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$4,000Numerous trees were reported knocked down in Huntington Township.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$3,000There were several reports of large branches down across roadways in Huntington Township due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$1,000One tree was downed on Blain Highway near State Route 772.
April 2018FloodBrownsville-High water resulted in a closure of part of State Route 772 near Rinehart Rd.

Every storm recorded in Ross 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
Yankeetown1.3 miles14
Newingburg (historical)2.7 miles14
Knockemstiff3.7 miles14
Summithill4.4 miles14
Massieville4.4 miles15
Denver4.7 miles14
Belleview Heights4.7 miles14
Pleasant Grove4.9 miles14

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.