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North Bradley, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Geneva Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48618. It stands on Bluff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sanford quadrangle.

North Bradley within Midland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of North Bradley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 219 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Other causes2
Smoking1

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
30 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 10
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 15
25 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 09
17 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMIDLAND 14
8 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Midland County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of North Bradley: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Fish's Tile Plant Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Pohl Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Midland County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Bradley in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2006: 1 hail, 1 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
August 2006Thunderstorm WindNorth Bradley-Central dispatch reported a tree blown down.
August 2000HailNorth Bradley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Midland 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
Alamando2.9 miles15
Francis Grove5.3 miles13
Wrights (historical)5.8 miles11
Coleman6.0 miles11
Curtis6.1 miles11
Sanford6.4 miles13
Olson6.7 miles13
Edenville8.4 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122559953The 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 633484. 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.