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Bradley Junction, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Bartow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33860. The Survey maps it on the Bradley Junction quadrangle. 542 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 138 feet above sea level.

Bradley Junction within Polk County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bradley Junction, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Bradley Junction, surveyed 1949

Population over time

2 figures

Bradley Junction fell from 686 to 542 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
2010686
2020542-144 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

274 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Bradley Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,363 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Railroad operations and maintenance55
Equipment and vehicle use46
Debris and open burning27
Recreation and ceremony27
Natural24
Arson/incendiarism21
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2004Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLD 37
20 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceAGRICOLA MINE ROAD (53)
19 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresFlorida Forest Service3 BOOMS
11 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBETHLEHEM RD.
8 August 2018Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLD 37 (53)
5 August 1994Natural50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Bradley Junction: 7 producers, 6 plants, 3 prospects, 3 past producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Uranium, Magnesite. 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
Hookers Prairie MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Uranium, MagnesitePast Producer1976
Imc Agrico - PebbledalePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Fluorine-Fluorite, AluminumProducerCollophane
Kingsford MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Aluminum, MagnesiteProducer1920
Polk County MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1974, 1976
Silver CityPhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, UraniumProspect1906, 1962, 1983
Haynesworth MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, MagnesiteProducer1967
Silver City MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, MagnesiteProducer1963
Kingsford MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumPast Producer1920, 1948
Pierce-PebbledalePhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumProducerSurface
Silver CityPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumPlant1906, 1930

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bradley Junction in 1 storm report in 1993: 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
February 1993HailBradley Junction-Dime-size hail fell.

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Rolling Hills2.1 miles15
Pierce2.8 miles15
Oak Terrace3.0 miles15
Pebbledale3.8 miles15
Green Bay4.2 miles15
Pine Dale4.2 miles15
Achan4.5 miles15
Agricola4.7 miles15

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 Bradley JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4954966The 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 307378. 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.