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Bradleyton, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Petrey-Highland Home census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36041. It stands on Jordan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grady quadrangle.

Bradleyton within Crenshaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

94 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Bradleyton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 474 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140927-001
22 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140922-001
20 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crenshaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Bradleyton: 9 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Cre 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Cre 7 Clay ProspectClayProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Crenshaw County

Storms near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bradleyton in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2005Tornado (F0)Bradleyton$150,000A weak tornado moved across the northeast part of Crenshaw county. The tornado touched down near Bradleyton and moved almost due east for about four miles. Most of the damage was to timber with some minor damage to a church and a few homes. The most damage occurred when a tree fell through an almost new manufactured home and split the home in two. The tornado dissipated near the Helicon community. The lady who would have normally been sleeping in the home where the tree fell, had gone to the hospital for an appointment. Other people were sleeping on both ends of the home and never knew the tree had split the home in two until someone woke them up. No one was injured.
April 2005HailBradleyton$3,000Golfball size hail fell from a thunderstorm near Bradleyton. The large hail caused minor damage to a few vehicles.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBradleyton-High winds caused damage on East Helicon and Shady Grove Road.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindBradleyton-High winds downed trees on Pouncy Road.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindBradleyton-High winds downed trees near Jordan Road and Bradleyton Road.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBradleyton-Severe thunderstorm winds downed several trees along Norman Rd and Sweetwater Rd.

Every storm recorded in Crenshaw 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
Helicon1.8 miles8
Garnersville2.4 miles8
Magnolia Shores3.5 miles8
Sardis3.9 miles8
Petrey4.1 miles7
Saville5.0 miles8
Highland Home5.2 miles8
Live Oak6.4 miles7

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 Q122558067The 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 114815. 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.