Brown County, Ohio

Brown County
County
Brown County Courthouse
Seal
Location within the U.S. state of Ohio
Ohio's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 38°56′N 83°52′W / 38.93°N 83.87°W / 38.93; -83.87
Country	United States
State	Ohio
Founded	1 March 1818
Named for	General Jacob Brown
Seat	Georgetown
Largest village	Georgetown
Area
• Total	493 sq mi (1,280 km2)
• Land	490 sq mi (1,300 km2)
• Water	3.4 sq mi (9 km2)  0.7%
Population  (2020)
• Total	43,676
• Density	89/sq mi (34/km2)
Time zone	UTC−5 (Eastern)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Congressional district	2nd
Website	www.browncountyohio.gov

Brown County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 43,676.^[1] The county seat is Georgetown.^[2] The county was created in 1818^[3] and is named for Major General Jacob Brown, an officer in the War of 1812 who was wounded at the Battle of Lundy's Lane.^[4]

Brown County is part of the Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Brown County was said to be the place of origin of the White Burley type of tobacco, grown in 1864 by George Webb and Joseph Fore on the farm of Captain Frederick Kautz near Higginsport from seed from Bracken County, Kentucky.

1. ↑ "QuickFacts: Brown County, Ohio". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 18, 2024.
2. ↑ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
3. ↑ "Ohio: Individual County Chronologies". Ohio Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. The Newberry Library. 2007. Archived from the original on April 6, 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2015.
4. ↑ Taylor, William Alexander (1899). Ohio Statesmen and Annals of Progress. Press of the Westbote Company. p. 243.