Do you know of Bradley ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bradley. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Bradley.
Our sources for Bradley (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Bradley other than they indicate that Bradley would be found somewhere in Tazewell County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1879 and closed in 1895.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Bradley ...
We found 35 communities that share the name Bradley.
There are three communities within Illinois that are also named Bradley.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another 32 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 32 communities, 33 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Escambia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bradley [Escambia County].
- Arkansas
- Lafayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Bradley [Lafayette County].
- California
- Monterey County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Bradley [Monterey County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Shoshone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Bradley [Shoshone County].
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Chautauqua County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bradley [Chautauqua County].
- Finney County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bradley [Finney County].
- Kentucky
- Magoffin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bradley [Magoffin County].
- Maine
- Penobscot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Bradley [Penobscot County].
- Michigan
- Allegan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bradley [Allegan County].
- Tuscola County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bradley [Tuscola County].
- Mississippi
- Montana
- Powell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Bradley [Powell County].
- Nebraska
- Scotts Bluff County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Bradley [Scotts Bluff County].
- New York
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bradley [Sullivan County].
- Ohio
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bradley [Jefferson County].
- Oklahoma
- Grady County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Bradley [Grady County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Bradley.
- Pennsylvania
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Bradley.
- South Carolina
- Greenwood County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Bradley [Greenwood County].
- South Dakota
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Bradley [Clark County].
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Bradley [Lincoln County].
- Marathon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Bradley [Marathon County].
- Milwaukee County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Bradley [Milwaukee County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bradley ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bradley:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Bradley - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
More Orphans in Tazewell County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Tazewell County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Bradley could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |