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Bradford, Minnesota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Bradford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55008. The Survey maps it on the Bradford quadrangle. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Bradford within Isanti County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Bradford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 606 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning101
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isanti County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bradford in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBradford-Several large tree branches were blown down in Bradford.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBradford-Sporadic trees and power lines were blown down around Bradford, Minnesota.
August 2009Heavy RainBradford-A local observer measured 5.50 inches of rainfall in the past 12 hours.
July 1997Tornado (F1)Bradford-Touchdown 3 miles west of downtown St Francis. Barn collapse.
June 2023HailBradford-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindBradford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Isanti 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
Oxlip1.9 miles12
West Lake Francis Shores1.9 miles12
West Point2.7 miles12
East Lake Francis Shores2.7 miles12
Spencer Brook3.8 miles12
Pine Brook4.6 miles12
Walbo5.0 miles12
Wyanett6.2 miles12

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 Q4954549The 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 640415. 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.