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

North Brewster, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sugarcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44613. It stands on Elm Run. The Survey maps it on the Navarre quadrangle.

North Brewster within Stark County

Then and now

1914 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Brewster, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of North Brewster, surveyed 1914

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

1 since 2018

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of North Brewster between 2018 and 2018, burning about 1 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 burning1

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
6 March 2018Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11645

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 171 shown

Museums hold 171 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Brewster between 1875 and 1975: 159 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Borror, D.J., Bruce Fink 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 Gloeosporium venetum Speg.Gloeosporium venetum Speg.1890J.T. Rice
Specimen of unnamed1907Bruce Fink
Specimen of Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872Catocala flebilis Grote, 18721940not recordedNavarre
A photograph of the species Theliderma metanevra, not of this specimenTheliderma metanevra (Rafinesque, 1820)1875Sterki, VictorBeach City
A photograph of the species Lanius borealis, not of this specimenLanius borealis borealis1888Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Pooecetes gramineus, not of this specimenPooecetes gramineus gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1888Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Certhia americana, not of this specimenCerthia americana americana Bonaparte, 18381889Harry C. OberholserPines 3 miles s of Newman Springs
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Icterus spurius, not of this specimenIcterus spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)1889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs

All 171 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of North Brewster: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 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
Allied Corp Plant No 3 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Allied Corp. Plant Number 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Navarre PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Navarre Pit Mass. Washed GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stark County

Storms nearby

2 since 2015

The National Weather Service names North Brewster in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 2017LightningNorth Brewster1 killedAn 82 year old man was struck by lightning and killed while working outside. This incident occurred just outside of Brewster.
May 2015HailNorth Brewster$3,000Law enforcement reported quarter size hail in Brewster.

Every storm recorded in Stark 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
Park Heights0.9 miles18
Brewster0.9 miles18
Elton1.1 miles18
Crossroads1.3 miles18
Justus1.5 miles18
Camp Creek1.6 miles18
Harmon2.1 miles18
Pigeon Run2.3 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122555140The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056453. 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.