Explore Bradley, Maine, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bradley, Maine. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Maine or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Bradley.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Bradley |
| State | Maine (ME) |
| County | Penobscot County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 44.911832 |
| Longitude | -68.621528 |
| Population | 765 |
| Density | 145.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 04411 |
| Area Code | 207 |
| County Seat | Bangor |
| School District | Regional School Unit 34 |
Bradley defines the quiet confluence of earth and water, where the persistent Otter Stream carves a path through the dense, low-lying woodland. It lies 11.1 miles northeast of Bangor, ME (from Bangor, ME: bearing 42°T), and is situated 3.4 miles northeast of Orono. The landscape beyond the immediate banks swells into modest, timbered rises, with the distant silhouette of Haynes Ridge anchoring the western horizon under a heavy, charcoal sky. Only two miles distant, the still waters of Otter Chain Ponds offer a mirror to the surrounding spruce and pine, while the dense University Forest presses close to the edge of the inhabited land, its deep shade cooling the air even in the height of summer. In the quiet center of the settlement, Town Park provides a modest clearing where the light filters through the canopy in thin, golden needles, grounding the spirit of Bradley in the simple, unadorned texture of the northern woods.
History here is written in the slow, mechanical pulse of the timber industry and the enduring legacy of inland enterprise that once harnessed the flow of the local waterways. The rhythm of daily life in Bradley remains tethered to these persistent patterns, where the labor of the forest and the careful stewardship of the land dictate the pace of the seasons. Those who seek to tread the path of older, harder times may venture five miles away to the Old Gold Mine Trail, where the earth still bears the faint, scarred evidence of past excavations. It is a place of deliberate endurance, where the community maintains a steady, inward-facing focus, finding its character not in grand spectacles, but in the quiet, reliable turning of the gear and the crisp, clean scent of cedar rising from the damp ground after a rain.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bradley, Maine. Coordinates: 44.911832, -68.621528. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Bradley includes the ZIP code (04411), telephone area code (207), county seat of Penobscot County (Bangor), and school district assignment (Regional School Unit 34).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |