Brownstown
Brownstown is a town within Brownstown Township and the county seat of Jackson County, Indiana, United States. The population was 2,947 at the 2010 census. It was named for Jacob Brown, a general of the War of 1812.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Reporter1998, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 3,040 residents
- Description: town in Indiana, United States
- Also known as: “Brownstown, IN” and “Brownstown, Indiana”
- Postal code: 47220
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jackson County Courthouse.
Jackson County Courthouse
Courthouse
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Jackson County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Brownstown, Indiana. The original building was built in 1870, and extensively remodeled by Elmer E.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ewing and Shields.
Ewing
Hamlet
Ewing is a former town in Jackson County, Indiana, in the United States. Located just west of Brownstown, it was annexed to the latter in 1892.
Shields
Hamlet
Shields was an unincorporated village in Hamilton Township, Jackson County, Indiana. It is the site of the Shields' Mill Covered Bridge, a National Register of Historic Places-listed property. Shields is situated 3½ miles northeast of Brownstown.
New Elizabethtown
Hamlet
New Elizabethtown is an unincorporated community in Brownstown Township, Jackson County, Indiana. New Elizabethtown is situated 4 miles northeast of Brownstown.
Brownstown
- Categories: town in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Brownstown Township, Jackson, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.87894° or 38° 52′ 44″ northLongitude
-86.04193° or 86° 2′ 31″ westPopulation
3,040Elevation
623 feet (190 metres)United Nations Location Code
US BXVOpen location code
86CMVXH5+H6OpenStreetMap ID
node 153666827OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Brownstown” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “براونزتاون”
- Basque: “Brownstown”
- Catalan: “Brownstown”
- Cebuano: “Brownstown”
- Chechen: “Браунстаун”
- Chinese: “Brownstown”
- Chinese: “布朗斯敦 (印地安納州)”
- Chinese: “布朗斯敦”
- Dutch: “Brownstown”
- French: “Brownstown”
- German: “Brownstown”
- Gilaki: “برأؤنزتاؤن (اينديانا)”
- Gilaki: “برأؤنزتاؤن”
- Greek: “Μπράουνσταουν”
- Haitian: “Brownstown, Indiana”
- Haitian: “Brownstown”
- Hungarian: “Brownstown”
- Irish: “Brownstown”
- Italian: “Brownstown”
- Japanese: “ブラウンズタウン”
- Ladin: “Brownstown”
- Mazanderani: “برونستؤن”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Brownstown”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brownstown”
- Norwegian: “Brownstown”
- Polish: “Brownstown”
- Portuguese: “Brownstown”
- Russian: “Браунстаун (Индиана)”
- Russian: “Браунстаун”
- Serbian: “Браунстаун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Brownstown, Indiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Brownstown”
- Spanish: “Brownstown (Indiana)”
- Spanish: “Brownstown”
- Swedish: “Brownstown, Indiana”
- Swedish: “Brownstown”
- Tatar: “Браунстаун”
- Ukrainian: “Браунстаун”
- Urdu: “براؤنزٹاؤن، انڈیانا”
- Urdu: “براؤنزٹاؤن”
- Uzbek: “Brownstown”
- Volapük: “Brownstown”
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Highlights include Brownstown Public Library and Jackson County Historical.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Brownstown”. Photo: Reporter1998, Public domain.