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

Bruno, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Thorn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43076. The Survey maps it on the Rushville quadrangle.

Bruno within Perry County

Then and now

1909 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bruno, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Bruno, surveyed 1909

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.

In the 1883 county history

165,003 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 Thorn Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Thorn Township - 165,003 words.

Fires nearby

8 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bruno between 2007 and 2020, burning about 59 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15132
17 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7408
3 November 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15925
28 November 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9968
23 October 2015Debris and open burning50 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3048
18 October 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15856
10 October 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 135 shown

Museums hold 135 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bruno between 1900 and 1965: 120 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Auten, Breakey, David H. Stansbery 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 Uromyces scirpi BurrillUromyces scirpi Burrill1902Kellerman, W.A.Buckeye Lake
Specimen of Equisetum arvense L.Equisetum arvense L.1937Sharps, M.E.Rush Creek Twp.
A photograph of the species Dicentra cucullaria, not of this specimenDicentra cucullaria (L.) Bernh.1900Williamson, E.B.New Salem
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 Cercosporella cana, not of this specimenCercosporella cana (Sacc.) Sacc.1903Kellerman, W.A.Buckeye Lake
A photograph of the species Absconditella sphagnorum, not of this specimenAbsconditella sphagnorum Vzda & Poelt1910F. DetmersBuckeye Lake, Cranberry Island
A photograph of the species Sphagnum palustre, not of this specimenSphagnum palustre L.1910R. F. GriggsBuckeye Lake
A photograph of the species Sphagnum recurvum, not of this specimenSphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.1910R. F. GriggsBuckeye Lake
Orchelimum nigripes Scudder, 18751923Fulton, B.BBuckeye Lake
A photograph of the species Atrichopogon levis, not of this specimenAtrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)1925not recordedBuckeye Lake
Nilobezzia mallochi Wirth, 19621925not recordedBuckeye Lake

All 135 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 Bruno: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Busse Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Glass Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms nearby

5 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Bruno in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 4 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBruno$175,000An attached garage collapsed onto 2 vehicles parked inside along Route 256. A shed was destroyed and siding was ripped off a house. Numerous trees were blown down. Power poles were damaged along Township Route 87.||Peak wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBruno$120,000Straight line winds were estimated at 60 to 70 mph by a National Weather Service survey. This caused damage along a path that was about a half mile wide and 2 miles long. One tree fell onto a house. A mobile home and a school had sections of their roofs ripped off. Several residents had siding or shingles removed by the wind.
April 2018Tornado (EF0)Bruno$100,000An EF0 tornado skipped along a roughly 1.25 mile path. Damage indicators were sparse, however, three pull-behind campers were tossed around at the beginning of the path near Ridenour Road in a convergent pattern and tree damage at the end of the path also indicated a convergent pattern. A single wide mobile home, just off Ridenour Road, was shifted 3 to 4 feet off its foundation. Another trailer had roof damage and debris blown through the windows on the west facing side, and another outbuilding further east along the path had the roof ripped off. Several trees along the path were either uprooted or snapped.
November 2017Thunderstorm WindBruno$1,000A tree was blown down along Township Road 235. A power line was also taken down.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBruno$500A tree blew down onto a swing set in the backyard of a home along High Point Road near Thornville.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Ziontown2.8 miles11
Thornville3.3 miles14
New Reading4.3 miles11
Thornport4.5 miles14
Walser5.5 miles12
Firemans Park5.6 miles14
Glenford5.8 miles12
Yost6.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056732. 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.