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

Bradner, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Montgomery Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43406. The Survey maps it on the Bradner quadrangle. 971 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 696 feet above sea level.

Bradner within Wood County

Population over time

2 figures

Bradner fell from 985 to 971 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. 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	985
2020	971	-14 (-1%)

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bradner, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Bradner, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 670 shown

Museums hold 670 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bradner between 1894 and 1975: 664 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., Baumgartner, L., Campbell, L. (Louis) 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
Physoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.Shaw	1912	E. G. Arzberger	Station grounds
Icterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1894	Geo W. Dean	Wayne
Calicium lenticulare Ach.	1895	E. E. Bogue
Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1897	Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) & Williamson, E. B.	Big Darby Creek, no more precise locality beyond township, near Darbydale OH, Pleasant Township
Fundulus diaphanus menona Jordan & Copeland, 1877	1922	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Portage River, within Wood Co, Wood County, township n/a
Scalopus aquaticus machrinus (Rafinesque, 1832)	1927	Finkenbinder, L.	Bowling Green, Wood Co., Ohio, USA
Perdix perdix (Linnaeus, 1758)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Waterville, Wood, Ohio, USA
Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)	1929	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	above Perrysburg: Maumee River, Wood Co., Ohio
Chelydra serpentina serpentina	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	South Branch-Portage River, Wood Co., Ohio
Chrysemys picta marginata Agassiz, 1857	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. B.	Liberty Twp; Middle Branch of Portage R, Wood Co., Ohio
Mustela nivalis allegheniensis (Rhoads, 1901)	1930	E. L. Moseley	Portage Twp
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	West Millgrove, Wood Co., Ohio

All 670 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

12 since 2001

The National Weather Service names Bradner in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradner	$100,000	A supercell thunderstorm tracked across Wood County, producing substantial damage. Downburst winds caused significant damage at an area farm. The tin roof covering the feedlot and livestock area was peeled off. A few outbuildings on the property were destroyed. No livestock were injured or killed during this event. Portions of the roof, covering one barn on the property, were ripped off as well. Another barn on the property was reportedly destroyed. Several large trees were uprooted on the property. The residence sustained damage as a result of the uprooted trees. The property owner estimated the damage to be around $20,000. Elsewhere, numerous reports of uprooted trees and overturned recreational vehicles in the area were recorded. There were no reports of injuries during this downburst wind event.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradner	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree. A parked car was severely damaged by the tree.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradner	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradner	$3,000	Large tree downed and damaged deck.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradner	$3,000	A trained weather spotter reported numerous tree limbs down in Bradner.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradner	$2,000	A social media report showed trees snapped in the Bradner area, including one falling onto State Route 281.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradner	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree near Bradner.
March 2003	Hail	Bradner	$2,000	Penny size hail was observed.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradner	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds uprooted a large tree.
March 2016	Hail	Bradner	-	Nickel sized hail was observed.
August 2013	Hail	Bradner	-	A trained weather spotter reported penny size hail.
May 2010	Hail	Bradner	-	Quarter sized hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Wayne	2.4 miles	14
Woodside	2.4 miles	14
Risingsun	3.8 miles	14
New Rochester	4.5 miles	15
Hatton	5.3 miles	14
Pemberville	6.1 miles	12
West Millgrove	6.2 miles	11
Six Points	6.8 miles	15

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 Bradner	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q897084	The 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 1048541. 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.

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.