Bradleys, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Glennville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30427. The Survey maps it on the Reidsville East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bradleys within Tattnall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Reidsville East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Vidalia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Bradleys (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,220 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 52 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 burning	143
Arson/incendiarism	52
Natural	16
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-TATTNALL-016
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-EVANS-006
29 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2006	Debris and open burning	6.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tattnall 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Purvis (historical)	2.5 miles	19
Hughland	2.6 miles	9
Mendes	2.7 miles	17
Lynn	4.5 miles	17
Tison	5.9 miles	8
Kicklighter (historical)	6.2 miles	17
Midway	6.4 miles	19
Reidsville	7.0 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 347389. 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.