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.
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
Bradley First Lutheran Churchlisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresBradley 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 72 | |
| 2020 | 65 | -7 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed 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.
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Bradley quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 1998Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 5 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 23 July 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 acres | Waubay Volunteer Fire Department | ENEMY SWIM HOUSING |
| 20 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Ipswich Volunteer Fire Department | HOFFMAN |
| 13 December 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Clark Volunteer Fire Department | STEVE OWEN N. CHURCH |
| 7 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | NELSON |
| 7 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SWAN LAKE FIRE |
| 11 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HORNING |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Flood | Bradley | - | A trained observer reported water over the gravel road north of Cottonwood Lake. |
| September 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Bradley | - | A tornado touched down briefly near Bradley. No damage was reported. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradley | - | Seventy mph winds damaged some power lines. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradley | - | Dime size hail combined with sixty mph winds caused significant damage to the corn along with downing several large tree branches. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradley | - | Sixty-five mph winds were estimated north of Garden City. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Bradley | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lily (historical) | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Crocker | 7.5 miles | 7 | |
| Julian (historical) | 9.2 miles | 8 | |
| Garden City | 9.7 miles | 8 | |
| Hillcrest Colony | 10.1 miles | 8 | |
| Elrod | 14.6 miles | 8 | |
| Silver Lake Colony | 14.9 miles | 8 | |
| Clark | 15.4 miles | 8 |
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 Bradley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2700310 | 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 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.



