Fort Brown, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 1986

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.

• 1909 USGS Continental quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Oakwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

Historical Atlas of Paulding County Ohio, published 1892 names this settlement in its chapter on Brown Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 718 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fort Brown between 1893 and 1973: 718 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Angle, E. (Eric) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard), Angle, E. (Eric), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hoschak, J. (John) 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
	Epitheca cynosura (Say, 1840)	1943	H. Price	Paulding Township, Baily gravel pit
	Gomphus graslinellus Walsh, 1862	1943	H. Price	Klinger Gravel Pit, Jackson Township
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
	Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	not recorded	Defiance, Auglaize River
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
	Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
	Notropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
	Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1910	Price, H. (Homer)	Paulding, Ohio, USA
	Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1912	Price, H. (Homer)	Paulding, Ohio, USA
	Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1916	Price, H. (Homer)	Payne, Crooked Creek bottoms, Paulding, Ohio, USA
	Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1916	Price, H. (Homer)	Payne, Crooked Creek bottoms, Paulding, Ohio, USA
	Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808	1916	Price, H. (Homer)	Payne within corporation, Paulding, Ohio, USA

All 718 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fort Brown: 3 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General, 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.

Every working recorded in Paulding County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1066005. 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.

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.