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Bradley, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Gray-Macon East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31032. The Survey maps it on the Gray quadrangle. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Bradley within Jones 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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

330 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 330 fires within 5 miles of Bradley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 717 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 12 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 burning214
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Smoking17
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
6 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019JONES001
3 September 1997Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Debris and open burning9.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019JONES005
23 September 1997Debris and open burning22 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019JONES004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bradley in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
October 2021Flash FloodBradley$15,000The Emergency Manager reported a portion of Wheeler Road was washed out due to high flow from Walnut Creek. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 5 inches of rain occurred over the area, resulting in the flash flooding.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindBradley$5,000The Jones County 911 center reported trees blown down from around the intersection of Wheeler Road and Whitehead Place to around the intersection of Highway 49 and Salem Church-Miller Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBradley$3,000The Jones County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down from near Round Oak to near Haddock.
October 2021Flash FloodBradley-Law Enforcement reported Greene Settlement Road closed due to flooding of Little Chehaw Creek. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 4.5 inches of rain occurred over the area, resulting in the flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Jones 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
Bragg2.4 miles11
Wayside2.5 miles11
Campbell (historical)3.3 miles11
Gray3.3 miles11
Clinton3.8 miles12
Smalls Crossing (historical)4.1 miles11
Pine Ridge4.3 miles10
Round Oak4.9 miles11

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 Q30622761The 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 331225. 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.

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.