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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.

Bradfordsville within Marion County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Bradfordsville 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.

YearPeople Change
2000304
2010294-10 (-3%)
2020270-24 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

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.

Kentucky Route 49 Bridge, Spanning Rolling Fork River, Bradfordsville, Marion County, KY
Kentucky Route 49 Bridge, Spanning Rolling Fork River, Bradfordsville, Marion County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

17 since 1998

Regional 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/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryARBUCKLE ROAD
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2007Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2001Equipment and vehicle use25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

11 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2023FloodBradfordsville1 killedA 75-year old male died after his vehicle was swept into the flooded Rolling Fork River near Bradfordsville.
October 2007Tornado (EF0)Bradfordsville$100,000The 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 2018Thunderstorm WindBradfordsville$20,000Law enforcement reported 2 power poles down in Bradfordsville.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBradfordsville$10,000A 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 2022Thunderstorm WindBradfordsville-Trees were down along Highway 49 near Liberty Road.
June 2020Flash FloodBradfordsville-There was water over the roadway and in a home on White Oak Creek Road.
June 2020Flash FloodBradfordsville-There were several roads closed in the Bradfordsville area due to high water.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBradfordsville-There were multiple trees down in the Bradfordsville area.
December 2015FloodBradfordsville-The Bradfordsville mayor reported to the NWS that heavy and excessive rainfall caused several roads to go under water.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBradfordsville-A tree fell, blocking a road in Bradfordsville.
May 2003HailBradfordsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Medlock (historical)3.0 miles9
Peck Ford4.0 miles9
Salleetown4.2 miles9
Arbuckle (historical)4.2 miles9
Aurbuckle (historical)4.2 miles9
Greenbriar4.4 miles9
Helm (historical)4.5 miles7
Penick5.1 miles7

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 BradfordsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1991980The 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.