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Brady, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Montesano census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98563. It stands on Henson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Montesano quadrangle. 692 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Brady within Grays Harbor County

Population over time

3 figures

Brady grew from 645 to 692 between 2000 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
2000645
2010676+31 (+5%)
2020692+16 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

52 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Brady between 1994 and 2019, burning about 61 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Fireworks3
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
4 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRUSTY TRACTOR
23 September 2005Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters830
17 September 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOUTBACK FIRE
13 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMIDDLE SATSOP
13 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
10 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSCHOUWEILER TRACTS
10 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Brady: 14 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE. 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
Schouweiler Road Pit and PlantREEPast Producer
Bayview PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brady PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maris PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brady in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 flood. 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 2021FloodBrady$59,000The Satsop River near Satsop and Chehalis River at Porter exceeded flood stage. Urban and small stream flooding also occurred.

Every storm recorded in Grays Harbor 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
Satsop1.6 miles9
Fuller2.6 miles15
Montesano4.9 miles14
South Elma5.3 miles15
Elma5.5 miles9
South Montesano5.6 miles14
Saginaw6.8 miles15
Melbourne7.0 miles14

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 BradyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1504014The 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 1512024. 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.

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.

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.