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Bradley, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cottonwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57217. The Survey maps it on the Bradley quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,814 feet above sea level.

Bradley within Clark County

On record in Bradley

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Bradley fell from 72 to 65 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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.

YearPeople Change
201072
202065-7 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 printed 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 near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bradley between 1998 and 2015, burning about 120 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
23 July 1998Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresWaubay Volunteer Fire DepartmentENEMY SWIM HOUSING
20 April 1999Debris and open burning30 acresIpswich Volunteer Fire DepartmentHOFFMAN
13 December 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresClark Volunteer Fire DepartmentSTEVE OWEN N. CHURCH
7 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNELSON
7 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSWAN LAKE FIRE
11 October 2015Debris and open burning20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHORNING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bradley in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 15 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024FloodBradley-A trained observer reported water over the gravel road north of Cottonwood Lake.
September 2017Tornado (EF0)Bradley-A tornado touched down briefly near Bradley. No damage was reported.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBradley-Seventy mph winds damaged some power lines.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBradley-Dime size hail combined with sixty mph winds caused significant damage to the corn along with downing several large tree branches.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBradley-Sixty-five mph winds were estimated north of Garden City.
June 2024HailBradley-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBradley-no account filed
June 2022HailBradley-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBradley-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBradley-no account filed
May 2018HailBradley-no account filed
July 2015HailBradley-no account filed
July 2015Funnel CloudBradley-no account filed
July 2014HailBradley-no account filed
May 2012HailBradley-no account filed
May 2012HailBradley-no account filed
May 2011HailBradley-no account filed
June 2009HailBradley-no account filed
June 2006HailBradley-no account filed
August 2006HailBradley-no account filed
July 2003HailBradley-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBradley-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBradley-no account filed
June 2000HailBradley-no account filed
July 1997HailBradley-no account filed
June 1996HailBradley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Lily (historical)5.2 miles7
Crocker7.5 miles7
Julian (historical)9.2 miles8
Garden City9.7 miles8
Hillcrest Colony10.1 miles8
Elrod14.6 miles8
Silver Lake Colony14.9 miles8
Clark15.4 miles8

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 Q2700310The 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 1254035. 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.

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.