Bradysville, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Sprigg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45144. The Survey maps it on the Maysville East quadrangle.
Then and now
1929 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1929 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1929 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:48000
- 1929 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Maysville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Maysville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Maysville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Maysville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Maysville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Maysville East quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Sprigg township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Ellis Palmer
Was a Pennsylvanian, and had a brother most cruelly tortured and murdered by the Indians there. He vowed vengeance against all Indians, whether friends or enemies. It is probable that he has been the means of sending many a red man to the happy hunting ground. It is related that on one occasion an Indian in passing through the neighborhood stayed overnight with Will G Ibert, just over the Brown county line.
In the county-history sources
18,686 words on this townshipCaldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio. 1797-1880, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Sprigg Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
This village was laid out by Van S. Brady, January 25th, 1839, on a plat of thirty-one lots. It was called Centerville, which is still its legal name. In obtaining an order for a post-office at the place, it was found there was already an office of that name in the State. Therefore the name of Bradvsville was given for the post-office, in honor of the proprietor, and for this circumstance the place is everywhere known by the name of " Bradysville. "
Passage source: Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio. 1797-1880, published 1880.
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 Sprigg Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
14 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bradysville between 2003 and 2019, burning about 93 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10230 |
| 20 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15118 |
| 14 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 58 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 58 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bradysville between 1929 and 1974: 49 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, ANSEL JOHN, Ahles, H.E. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802) | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Wooded swamp, Monroe Twp, Adams Co., Ohio |
![]() | Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818) | 1929 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | 1 mi. NE Wrightsville, Monroe Twp., Adams Co., Ohio |
![]() | Plethodon cinereus (Green, 1818) | 1930 | Dury, R. (Ralph) | Liberty Twp., Adams Co., Ohio |
| Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque, 1817 | 1931 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Ohio River, within Sprigg township, near Manchester, Sprigg township | |
![]() | Carpiodes velifer (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1931 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Ohio River, (off U.S. 52), at Manchester OH, Sprigg Township |
| Notropis blennius (Girard, 1856) | 1938 | Rhoades, R. (Randall) | Ohio River, Manchester Island, ~1.8 mi E of Manchester, Tollesboro CCD | |
| Orconectes juvenilis (Hagen, 1870) | 1939 | R. Rhoades | Ohio River, 3 mi. below Aberdeen, Huntingon Township | |
| Orconectes propinquus (Girard, 1852) | 1939 | R. Rhoades | Ohio River, S. side of Manchester Island | |
![]() | Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852) | 1939 | R. Rhoades | Big Three Mile Creek 1 mi. above Bradyville, Sprigg Township |
![]() | Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836 | 1948 | ANSEL JOHN | 4 MI S OF DECATUR |
| Regina septemvittata (Say, 1825) | 1948 | A JOHN | OWL CREEK 4 MI S OF DECATUR | |
| Bryozoa (fossil) | 1964 | June R. Ross | Plumville - East |
All 58 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bradysville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maysville Kiln | Calcium | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evertonville | 1.2 miles | 15 | |
| Paradise Hills | 1.4 miles | 15 | |
| Manchester | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Clayton | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Bentonville | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Catbird | 6.8 miles | 14 | |
| Fairview | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Wrightsville | 8.4 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064477. 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.




















