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

Bradrick, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45619. It stands on Indian Guyan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle.

Bradrick within Lawrence County

Then and now

1892 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bradrick, surveyed 1982

Topographic sheet of Bradrick, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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

138 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Bradrick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 335 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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 burning	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Arson/incendiarism	35
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	3
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1822
19 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	RUSSELL CREEK
16 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8546
17 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	5600 BLOCK RT. 2
13 June 2017	Other causes	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8526
4 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1404
23 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8406

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 764 shown

Museums hold 764 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bradrick between 1840 and 1974: 546 Animalia, 117 Plantae, 78 Fungi, 20 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer W. A., BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I, BARUCH 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
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter	1892	W.A. Kellerman	Symmes Creek
Polanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.	1840	Short, C.W.	along Ohio River
Eragrostis reptans (Michx.) Nees	1880	T Meehan
Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1900	not recorded	Guyandotte River
Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.	1903	Beale J. M.	Guyandotte
Coniothyrium fuckelii Sacc.	1904	Brooks Fred E.	Huntington
Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter	1904	Brooks F. E.	Huntington
Haematoloechus longiplexus Stafford, 1902	1905	Collector(s): Daniel R. Brooks, David Zamparo	Huntington
Cladosporium carpophilum Thüm.	1906	C.M. Davidson
Albugo bliti (Biv.) Kuntze	1909	Summers, T. B.	Huntington
Coprinus Pers., 1797	1909	Sambert	Barboursville
Marssonina populi (Lib.) Magnus	1909	Sheldon John L.	Huntington

All 764 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bradrick: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel. 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
Huntington Alloys Rolling Mill	Nickel	Producer
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

1 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Bradrick in 1 storm report between 2014 and 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradrick	$2,000	Trees were blown down along Route 243.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Sunny Acres	1.1 miles	20
Corryville	1.1 miles	20
Proctorville	1.6 miles	20
Brentwood	1.8 miles	20
Fairland	2.0 miles	19
Rockwood	2.1 miles	20
Plantation Estates	2.1 miles	19
Rome	2.2 miles	19

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.

Wikidata item Q122557198

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 1064475. 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.

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.