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Bradley, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Smithfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43917. The Survey maps it on the Dillonvale quadrangle.

Bradley within Jefferson County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bradley, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bradley, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 nearby

10 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Bradley between 2003 and 2018, burning about 51 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
3 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4385
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12910
12 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3626
28 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2011Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 436 shown

Museums hold 436 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bradley between 1876 and 1974: 352 Animalia, 48 Plantae, 36 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. W. Cusick, Arden R. Gaufin, Baer 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Polygonum erectum L.Polygonum erectum L.1902Kellerman, W.A.Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio
Specimen of Puccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) LinkPuccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) Link1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Circus cyaneus, not of this specimenCircus cyaneus (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Mniotilta varia, not of this specimenMniotilta varia (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Betula lenta, not of this specimenBetula lenta L.1877Wertz, H.W.Buffalo Creek near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Fagus grandifolia, not of this specimenFagus grandifolia Ehrh.1877Guttenberg, H.G.Wellsburg
A photograph of the species Polypodium virginianum, not of this specimenPolypodium virginianum L.1879J. M. CoulterCharlestown
A photograph of the species Ionaspis lacustris, not of this specimenIonaspis lacustris (With.) Lutzoni1893Calkins, W. W.Short Creek
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1902W. A. Kellerman
Mollisia dehnii (Rabenh.) P.Karst.1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Puccinia myrrhis, not of this specimenPuccinia myrrhis Alb. & Schwein.1902W. A. Kellerman
Actinonema rosae (Lib.) Fr.1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg

All 436 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2003

The National Weather Service names Bradley in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2008: 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBradley1 killed, 1 hurt, $15,000The Ohio State Highway Patrol reported a large tree branch fell onto a car travelling north on Jefferson 17, four tenths of a mile south of Jefferson 15 in Smithfield Township. The large branch fell from very high in the tree, striking the vehicle longways and creating a deep V shape down the vehicles roof. The driver, a 62 year old male, was killed almost instantly. His 61 year old wife was injured.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBradley$2,000Trees and power lines blown down south of Smithfield.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Greentown0.5 miles18
Smithfield1.7 miles18
Deyarmonville2.5 miles17
Piney Fork2.8 miles18
Jug Run2.8 miles27
Weems2.9 miles18
Pine Valley3.0 miles17
Newell3.3 miles18

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 Q22133579The 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 1048540. 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.

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.

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.