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Bradford, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Montalba-Tennessee Colony census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75803. The Survey maps it on the Blackfoot quadrangle. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Bradford within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Bradford between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,208 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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 burning79
Equipment and vehicle use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 1997Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2012Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7123
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePIERCE
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRADFORDVFD
29 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTURNER COATS
28 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bradford in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
January 2010Thunderstorm WindBradford$30,000A large tree fell on top of a residence and three tractors and three pickups parked outside also were damaged. Another residence suffered damage to its tin roof and lost siding off the side of the house.
October 2010HailBradford$13,000Golf ball size hail was reported in Bradford.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBradford$500A public report indicated a medium sized tree down across Highway 19 just north of the community of Bradford, TX.
March 2011HailBradford-Penny size hail was reported along Farm-to-Market Road 837 near the town of Bradford.

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Springfield2.1 miles12
Bois d'Arc2.2 miles12
Blackfoot4.7 miles12
Ward6.0 miles12
Montalba7.9 miles13
Fosterville8.2 miles15
Brushy Creek8.3 miles13
Elmwood8.6 miles13

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 BradfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076421The 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 1379452. 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.