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Bradford, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Foster census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41043. It stands on Little Snag Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moscow quadrangle. It stands 495 feet above sea level.

Bradford within Bracken County

On record in Bradford

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bradford between 2002 and 2007, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
13 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 February 2002Recreation and ceremony11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bracken County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bradford: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Howerton GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bracken County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bradford in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBradford$5,000Several large trees were knocked down, blocking Bradford Road.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBradford$3,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBradford$3,000Trees downed across Rt 8.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBradford$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Bracken 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
Willow Grove1.4 miles13
Johnsville2.2 miles13
Wellsburg2.4 miles11
Rock Springs3.1 miles11
Foster3.7 miles13
Woolcott4.3 miles8
Cumminsville5.1 miles8
Bladeston5.1 miles8

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 BradfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4954543The 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 507569. 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.