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Bradley, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Alex census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73011. It stands on Slough Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bradley quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.

Bradley within Grady County

Population over time

2 figures

Bradley fell from 130 to 78 between 2010 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
2010130
202078-52 (-40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bradley between 2005 and 2009, burning about 6,816 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6,766 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryLINDSAY
9 April 2009Debris and open burning50 acresChickasaw AgencyAGNES CARNEY
19 April 2005Naturalunder an acreChickasaw AgencyCARNEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grady County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bradley: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grady County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bradley in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
September 1993Thunderstorm WindBradley$5,000no account filed
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Bradley$2,000The tornado that started in McClain County moved north-northwest and began straddling the McClain-Grady County line. The tornado never fully moved into Grady County, but the centerline of the tornado briefly moved north-northwest into Grady County before turning north-northeast back into McClain County. Trees were damaged along the county line.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBradley$50Several tree limbs were downed.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBradley-Reported at Highway 19 west side of Bradley, trees are down on the road, from twitter picture.
May 2011Tornado (EF3)Bradley-This tornado is labeled D1 (Segment #1 of the Washington-Goldsby tornado). This tornado developed west of Bradley, downing tree limbs as it moved northeast. The tornado began to increase in intensity, producing EF-3 damage, as it approached McClain county. Although the damage was confined to trees, the severity of the damage became more intense. Trees were snapped at the bases, or debarked altogether. The tornado was several hundred yards wide as it neared the county line. Luckily, very few structures were in the path. This tornado continued into McClain County. Monetary damage estimates were not available.
May 2025HailBradley-no account filed
October 2011HailBradley-no account filed
April 2004HailBradley-no account filed
June 2004HailBradley-no account filed
April 2001HailBradley-no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindBradley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grady 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
Alex4.5 miles17
Cox City10.6 miles12
Bailey12.1 miles16
Ninnekah12.4 miles17
Agawam12.6 miles17
Tabler12.9 miles13
Rush Springs14.7 miles17
Farwell15.8 miles13

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 BradleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2413188The 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 1090447. 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.