Bradford School House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Bracken County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 8 and 1109, Foster, 41043
When was it listed? June 2003
Category. building
Census division. Foster
National Register reference number. 03000263 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bradford School House 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 ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 February 2002	Recreation and ceremony	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Bracken County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bradford School House: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Howerton Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Bracken County

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foster, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2020	Flash Flood	Foster	$20,000	A portion of the AA Highway near Foster was washed out. Western Route 8 also had high water and Ruf Road was washed out.
August 2012	Flash Flood	Foster	$20,000	Holts creek road was impassible south of the AA Highway due to high water over the road caused by heavy rainfall. A house along the road was also flooded.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Foster	$5,000	Several trees were downed.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Foster	$5,000	Numerous trees were downed in the Foster area.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Foster	$5,000	Several reports of downed trees were received in the Foster Area.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Foster	$5,000	A barn was destroyed.
May 2003	Hail	Foster	$3,000	A few trees were knocked down along with the large hail.
November 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Foster	$3,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Foster	$1,000	A couple of trees were downed on Route 8 due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2012	Flood	Foster	$1,000	High water due to heavy rainfall was reported on Holts Creek Road.
April 2025	Hail	Foster	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bracken County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Rock Spring Warehouse	2.7 miles	1987
Mordecai Chalfant House	3.3 miles	1987
Walcott Covered Bridge	4.0 miles	1975
Bold House	4.1 miles	2017
Confederate Monument in Augusta	6.9 miles	1997
J. R. Minor House	7.1 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000263 in Record Group 79.
Bracken County	All 23 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.