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Bradley, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Roane Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71826. The Survey maps it on the Bradley quadrangle. 405 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 253 feet above sea level.

Bradley within Lafayette County

On record in Bradley

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Bradley fell from 563 to 405 between 2000 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
2000563
2010628+65 (+12%)
2020405-223 (-36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

79 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Bradley between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,977 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 24 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
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning18
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bradley: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bradley in 46 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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
October 2009Thunderstorm WindBradley1 hurt, $10,000A tree was blown down onto a vehicle trapping a man inside. He was injured and taken to a local hospital.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindBradley$500,000Upwards of 20 homes wee damaged across the southern half of Lafayette County, Arkansas from thunderstorms winds. The homes were damaged from fallen trees. There were no reports of injuries across the county. Areas around Lake Erling were especially hit hard as trees and powerlines blocked roads and across to some residential areas. At least a mile of Hwy. 53 was littered with debris which had to be removed before emergency personnel could assist a motorist trapped in his truck by a tree tangled in high voltage power lines. One home positioned a the edge of the lake on Laf. 260 had the roof stripped. Another large tree fell on a truck and the tree also clipped an adjacent home. Three trees were also downed on mobile homes in the area. At Sandy Point, it was estimated that three-fourths of the homes had some type of damage. At Cypress Point, most of the homes were reported to have some type of storm damage ranging from roof damage, downed trees, broken windows, dented walls and damaged vehicles.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindBradley$50,000Trees and power lines were blown down. Two houses sustained roof damage and windows were blown out of a store.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindBradley$50,000Thunderstorm winds damaged two houses and downed some trees.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindBradley$1,000Trees were downed west of town along with the tin roof damage to some outbuildings.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBradley$500Several trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBradley-A tree was blown down blocking Crabtree Lane in Bradley.
March 2024Flash FloodBradley-Numerous county roads in the southern part of Lafayette County were flooded and closed.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindBradley-Trees downed across Highway 160 east of Bradley.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindBradley-A large tree was blown down on Olive Avenue in Bradley.
June 2023HailBradley-Half dollar size hail reported in Bradley.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindBradley-A tree was blown down on Highway 160 east of Bradley.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindBradley-Trees and power lines down across the central and southern half of Lafayette County.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindBradley-Trees down on power lines on Highway 160 east of Bradley.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindBradley-Numerous trees and powerlines were downed across the entire county.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBradley-Trees were downed on Hwy. 29.
May 2009Flash FloodBradley-One foot of water was reported across County Roads 9 and 4 west of town.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindBradley-Numerous trees and power lines were downed in the Bradley, community.
March 2007HailBradley-Hail reported in the Canfield community.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBradley-Trees down at State Line Road on Hwy. 360. Several trees and power lines were also downed in the Bradley area.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBradley-Numerous trees down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBradley-Strong straight line winds and heavy rain pummeled the area knocking down numerous trees. One tree fell onto a van bringing a power line with it. The line was pulled off the pole otherwise the occupants would have been electrocuted according to the local police. A chimney was blown from a house on Lafayette County road 5. Nearby, a chicken house received a large hole when a 6 to 8 inch wide limb blew into it and seven large pecan trees were blown down.
December 2002Flash FloodBradley-Several county roads under water.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindBradley-Several large trees down near Walnut Creek and FM 3302.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindBradley-Trees were toppled along Hwy 53 just north of Walker Creek. No damage to homes or structures occurred.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindBradley-Trees down across Hwy 67.
January 1999Tornado (F1)Bradley-The tornado tracked through wooded area causing no damage other than nuisance road blockages from fallen trees.
June 1997Funnel CloudBradley-A funnel cloud was reported near Highway 29 and State Highway 160.
April 2015HailBradley-no account filed
April 2014HailBradley-no account filed
April 2014HailBradley-no account filed
May 2009HailBradley-no account filed
April 2009HailBradley-no account filed
March 2008HailBradley-no account filed
March 2007HailBradley-no account filed
June 2005HailBradley-no account filed
November 2001HailBradley-no account filed
April 2000HailBradley-no account filed
March 1999HailBradley-no account filed
May 1999HailBradley-no account filed
January 1998HailBradley-no account filed
January 1997HailBradley-no account filed
May 1996HailBradley-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBradley-no account filed
October 1996HailBradley-no account filed
May 1994HailBradley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Walnut Hill1.7 miles17
Kizer2.3 miles17
Gin City3.7 miles17
Grants4.0 miles15
Burton Mill5.3 miles15
Canfield6.0 miles15
State Line6.9 miles17
Walker Creek7.6 miles17

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 BradleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79581The 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 76408. 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.