BlockBrownstown, Washington
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Toppenish-Wapato census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98933. The Survey maps it on the Harrah quadrangle. It stands 853 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed 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.
- 1937 USGS White Swan quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Harrah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Toppenish quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
179 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Brownstown between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,180 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 were 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 | 71 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 37 |
| Fireworks | 28 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Yakama Agency | BRANCH RD. |
| 7 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Yakama Agency | HARRAH DRAIN RD. |
| 5 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Yakama Agency | 1900 BLOCK SHAKER CHURCH |
| 4 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Yakama Agency | 501 SUNRAY RD. |
| 27 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Yakama Agency | N HARRAH |
| 26 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Yakama Agency | NORTH BARKES |
| 24 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Yakama Agency | STEPHENSON / BRANCH #3 |
| 23 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Yakama Agency | DEERING RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownstown in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Hail | Brownstown | - | One inch hail reported by spotter. |
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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on Brownstown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4976744 | The 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 1512039. 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.
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.