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

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.

Bradysville within Adams County

Then and now

1929 to 1992

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Bradysville, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Bradysville, surveyed 1929

Compare 1929 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Sprigg township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio. 1797-1880, published 1880 - Sprigg Township

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.

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In the county-history sources

18,686 words on this township

Caldwell'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 2003

Regional 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3

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
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10230
20 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2003Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15118
14 March 2014Debris and open burning35 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 58 shown

Regional 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Ambystoma maculatum, not of this specimenAmbystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooded swamp, Monroe Twp, Adams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1929Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)1 mi. NE Wrightsville, Monroe Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon cinereus, not of this specimenPlethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)1930Dury, R. (Ralph)Liberty Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque, 18171931Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Ohio River, within Sprigg township, near Manchester, Sprigg township
A photograph of the species Carpiodes velifer, not of this specimenCarpiodes velifer (Rafinesque, 1820)1931Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Ohio River, (off U.S. 52), at Manchester OH, Sprigg Township
Notropis blennius (Girard, 1856)1938Rhoades, R. (Randall)Ohio River, Manchester Island, ~1.8 mi E of Manchester, Tollesboro CCD
Orconectes juvenilis (Hagen, 1870)1939R. RhoadesOhio River, 3 mi. below Aberdeen, Huntingon Township
Orconectes propinquus (Girard, 1852)1939R. RhoadesOhio River, S. side of Manchester Island
A photograph of the species Orconectes rusticus, not of this specimenOrconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)1939R. RhoadesBig Three Mile Creek 1 mi. above Bradyville, Sprigg Township
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361948ANSEL JOHN4 MI S OF DECATUR
Regina septemvittata (Say, 1825)1948A JOHNOWL CREEK 4 MI S OF DECATUR
Bryozoa (fossil)1964June R. RossPlumville - East

All 58 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Maysville KilnCalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Adams 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
Evertonville1.2 miles15
Paradise Hills1.4 miles15
Manchester3.3 miles14
Clayton3.3 miles15
Bentonville4.8 miles14
Catbird6.8 miles14
Fairview7.8 miles9
Wrightsville8.4 miles14

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.