Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Bradford, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Newberry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45308. It stands on Ballinger Run. The Survey maps it on the Versailles quadrangle.

Bradford within Miami County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bradford, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Bradford, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

In the county-history sources

41,096 words on this township

The History of Miami County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Miami County; Constitution of the United States; Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Newberry Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The lands in the western and northwestern part of this township are the most elevated in the county ; general surface undulating, inclining to southeast, being traversed, from west to south, by the Stillwater River and Greenville Creek, with their numerous tributaries. A small portion is slightly broken, but few declivities occur. As was the entire county, this township, in an early day, was covered with an unbroken sheet of forest, of various species of timber, too well known to be here described. The noble oak and the valuable sugar maple are, however, fast disappearing, and, ere many years have passed away, will have entirely disappeared. So, also, are growing scarce the ironwood, witch-hazel, box-elder, white thorn, plum and black haw, juneberry, papaw and spicewood, densely blooming in the early spring ; ginseng, yellow and red puccoon root, wild onion, swamp cabbage and spikenard abounded, that forest pest called " ramps," which, when eaten by cows, imparted to the milk and butter a taste and flavor resembling a mixture of garlic, jimson, etc.

Passage source: The History of Miami County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Miami County; Constitution of the United States; Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1880.

Sir - You will make a return of your company to me by the 25th, stating the number of men, and their equipments, and of your camp equipage, so that I may be able to make a general return, as I have received (orders) for that purpose.

It appears that when the workmen began work on the foundation, the frame had suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, although having, up to that time, lain in full view. The theory was, that some evil-minded persons had thrown it into the river during the then existing freshet, as some portions of it were found among the drift, and subsequently one participant confessed it. Thus discouraged, the Baptists ceased to exist as an organization.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Newberry Township - it names this place 13 more 13 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 259 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 259 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bradford between 1897 and 1967: 248 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
unnamed	1897	F. L. Stevens	Sugar Grove.
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	F.L. Stevens	Sugar Grove
Phyllosticta podophylli (M.A.Curtis) G.Winter	1897	F.L. Stevens
Potamogeton amplifolius Tuck.	1899	Young, WU
Bothriocephalus claviceps (Goeze, 1782) Rudolphi, 1810	1926	R. Bangham	Piqua
Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)	1929	MB Trautman	Stillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820	1929	MB Trautman	Stillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
Lythrurus ardens (Cope, 1868)	1929	MB Trautman	Stillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
Notropis photogenis (Cope, 1865)	1929	MB Trautman	Stillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
Notropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)	1929	MB Trautman	Stillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
Notropis volucellus volucellus	1929	MB Trautman	Stillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)	1930	MB Trautman	Small tributary of the Stillwater River, northern Newberry Township

All 259 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bradford: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Poeppelman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wise Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Wise Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Miami County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bradford in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2024	Tornado (EF2)	Bradford	$750,000	The tornado developed at 1850EST in Randolph County, Indiana, just south of Farmland. The tornado traveled east across Randolph County, Indiana, and Darke County, Ohio, and entered Miami County at 1952EST, along State Route 721, just north of Grandview Drive. The tornado reached EF-2 intensity with winds of up to 120 mph near the intersection of Klinger and Rangeline Roads. Two homes had a significant amount of roof and some external wall removal while other nearby properties had outbuildings that were severely damaged.\|\|The last damage was noted along State Route 48 near the intersection with Klinger Road. The tornado is believed to have dissipated near this location at 2000EST.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	$5,000	no account filed
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	$3,000	Trees and large limbs were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2000	Hail	Bradford	-	Hail as large as baseballs fell across much of county affecting the towns of Bradford, Pleasant Hill, Troy and Piqua. Significant damage occurred.
March 2026	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miami 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Clayton	3.2 miles	13
Abe	3.8 miles	15
Bloomer	3.9 miles	13
West Covington	4.0 miles	13
Circle Hill	4.2 miles	13
Covington	4.2 miles	13
Polo	5.3 miles	15
Rowdyville (historical)	5.3 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064474. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.