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Brownsville, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Brownsville Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53006. The Survey maps it on the Lomira quadrangle. 598 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Brownsville within Dodge County

Population over time

2 figures

Brownsville grew from 581 to 598 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010581
2020598+17 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed 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 near this place

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Brownsville between 2018 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
30 April 2018Debris and open burning15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources40
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18062
21 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19023
2 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20012
19 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18042
23 November 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1811060

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Brownsville: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Limestone, Dimension, Calcium. 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
Farmersville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Western Lime-Knowles QuarryCalciumProducer
El Dais Stone Company PlantStonePast Producer
Farmersville QuarryStoneUnknown
Oakfield QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Oakfield Quarry,Eden Stone Co IncLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Byron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hoppe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reischke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownsville in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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
May 2025Tornado (EF1)Brownsville$45,000Tornado started southwest of Lomira and north of County Rd AH. While briefly on the ground, it destroyed a barn west of Highway 67.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBrownsville$25,000A pole shed, machine shed, and silo were damaged.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBrownsville-Large tree branches were reported blown down from thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 61 mph (52 knots).
July 2005Funnel CloudBrownsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Nasbro1.7 miles10
Lomira3.0 miles9
Knowles3.1 miles10
Farmersville4.6 miles10
LeRoy4.7 miles10
Theresa Station7.0 miles9
Kekoskee7.0 miles10
Theresa7.2 miles9

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 BrownsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2041976The 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 1562277. 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.

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.