Bradfordsville, Kentucky
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Bradfordsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40009. It stands on North Rolling Fork. The Survey maps it on the Bradfordsville quadrangle. 270 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.
On record in Bradfordsville
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
Bradfordsville Christian Churchlisted 2010
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Kentucky Route 49 Bridge, Spanning Rolling Fork River, Bradfordsvillefederal building survey, 14 photographs
Population over time
3 figuresBradfordsville fell from 304 to 270 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 304 | |
| 2010 | 294 | -10 (-3%) |
| 2020 | 270 | -24 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Bradfordsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Bradfordsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
17 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Bradfordsville between 1998 and 2019, burning about 147 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/incendiarism | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.3 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 March 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ARBUCKLE ROAD |
| 30 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 March 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 March 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bradfordsville in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2023 | Flood | Bradfordsville | 1 killed | A 75-year old male died after his vehicle was swept into the flooded Rolling Fork River near Bradfordsville. |
| October 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Bradfordsville | $100,000 | The tornado touched down about three quarters of a mile southwest of Bradfordsville near the intersection of Bradfordsville and Thornton Roads. A mobile home was rolled over and two homes suffered shingle damage. An outbuilding also sustained minor damage, and several small trees were downed. From here, the tornado moved east-northeast into Bradfordsville, doing significant tree damage, snapping power poles, and destroying several outbuildings, one of which collapsed onto a speedboat. When the tornado lifted, the parent thunderstorm continued to cause extensive tree damage on the eastern side of Bradfordsville. Structural and tree damage from the tornado was consistent with an EF-0 tornado. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradfordsville | $20,000 | Law enforcement reported 2 power poles down in Bradfordsville. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradfordsville | $10,000 | A NWS Storm Survey concluded that a localized microburst caused damage to a small outbuilding and downed 4 hardwood trees. Winds were estimated around 60 mph. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradfordsville | - | Trees were down along Highway 49 near Liberty Road. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Bradfordsville | - | There was water over the roadway and in a home on White Oak Creek Road. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Bradfordsville | - | There were several roads closed in the Bradfordsville area due to high water. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradfordsville | - | There were multiple trees down in the Bradfordsville area. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Bradfordsville | - | The Bradfordsville mayor reported to the NWS that heavy and excessive rainfall caused several roads to go under water. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradfordsville | - | A tree fell, blocking a road in Bradfordsville. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Bradfordsville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medlock (historical) | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Peck Ford | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Salleetown | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Arbuckle (historical) | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Aurbuckle (historical) | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Greenbriar | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Helm (historical) | 4.5 miles | 7 | |
| Penick | 5.1 miles | 7 |
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 Bradfordsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1991980 | The 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 487792. 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.




