Bradford, Pennsylvania

Bradford is positioned in Pennsylvania Bradford - Bradford Website City of Bradford Bradford is a town/city in Mc - Kean County, Pennsylvania, United States, close to the border with New York State and approximately 78 miles (126 km) south of Buffalo, New York.

Bradford is the principal town/city in the Bradford, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Settled in 1823, Bradford was chartered as a town/city in 1879 and emerged as a wild petroleum boomtown in the Pennsylvania petroleum rush in the late 19th century.

The Bradford & Foster Brook Railway was assembled in 1876 as one of, if not the first, monorails in America, when Bradford was a booming petroleum town. World-famous Kendall racing oils were produced in Bradford.

Bradford was the site of an meaningful step in the evolution of personal aviation.

In the 1930s, the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation produced an aircraft called the Taylor Cub in Bradford.

After relocating his factory to Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, Piper resumed manufacturing of a revised design of the aircraft first produced in Bradford, which became the world-famous Piper Cub.

Two adjoining townships, home to approximately 9,000 citizens , make the populace of Greater Bradford about 18,000.

The Bradford Armory, Bradford Downtown Historic District, Bradford Old City Hall, and Rufus Barrett Stone House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Bradford is the home of Zippo, a manufacturer of collectible pocket lighters, and Case, which is owned by Zippo and makes collectible knives.

After Zippo and Case, the second biggest employer is Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC), which working 759 in February 2009.

Bradford Area School District (474) and Wal-Mart (378).

Along with being Bradford's longest running active business, ARG is the earliest continuously operating refinery in the United States. It jubilated its 125th anniversary in 2006.

Bradford has a four-year college, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (Pitt-Bradford), which in the fall term 2009 had 1,455 full-time students and 202 part-time students for a total enrollment of 1,657, with 217 full-time employees and 106 part-time employees.

The Bradford Creative and Performing Arts Center season runs from September to March.

The Bromeley Family Theater at The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford hosts many affairs in the University's Spectrum Series that brings authors, artists, musicians, recitalists and performance groups to ground with all affairs open to the public.

Theater productions are staged by the theater departments at Pitt-Bradford and the high school and by the Bradford Little Theater, which jubilated its 10th anniversary in 2006.

Bradford jubilates New Year's Eve with a First Night celebration.

In 2009, for the first time, National Night Out was a momentous event in Bradford, coinciding with Taste of Bradford.

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According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.5 square miles (9.1 km2), all of it land.

Bradford Regional Airport is positioned about 15 miles (24 km) south of the city, at Mount Alton.

Temperatures in the town/city are typically three to seven degrees warmer than at the airport due to the difference in elevation, and actual town/city temperatures are more representative of other communities in northern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York than are the airport's.

The record low in Bradford is 37 F ( 38 C) set in February 1934 and the record high is 98 F (37 C) in July 1936 and again in July 1986.

Other notable extremes include a 9 F ( 23 C) recording on November 29, 1930, and on November 30, 1929, a 3 F ( 19 C) recording on April 1, 1923, an 83 F (28 C) degree reading on March 30, 1986 and March 29, 1998, and a 28 F ( 2 C) degree reading on August 29, 1982. Late fall/early winter is especially snowy due to heavy amounts of lake effect snow from Lake Erie and, to a lesser extent, Lake Ontario.

Climate data for Bradford 4 - SW RES 5, Pennsylvania (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1941 present) Climate data for Bradford Regional Airport, Pennsylvania (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1957 present) Climate data for Bradford, Pennsylvania (downtown), 1981 2010 normals Bradford is positioned inside miles of the Allegany State Park in New York, the third-largest state park in the United States, and the Allegheny National Forest, the only nationwide forest in Pennsylvania.

Parks in the town/city include Callahan Park, with swimming pools, tennis courts and an enclosed ice skating rink, and Hanley Park, with a large playground, horseshoe pits and a skate park.

The encircling area has two golf courses, the Pennhills Club in Bradford Township and Pine Acres Golf Course near Marshburg.

Born in Bradford on January 16, 1934.

Rube Waddell, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, born in Bradford on October 13, 1876. East Bradford Business Association.

"Pennsylvania: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).

"Bradford's Local Climatic Data".

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