Bristol, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Bristol census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31518. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Patterson quadrangle. 122 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Bristol within Pierce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Patterson quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

277 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Bristol between 1992 and 2020, burning about 884 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 49 were 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 burning	148
Arson/incendiarism	49
Natural	26
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-PIERCE-010
9 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-PIERCE-011
9 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-PIERCE-012
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020PIERCE003
4 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PIERCE-014

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bristol in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 5 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 1995	Tornado (F1)	Bristol	4 hurt, $300,000	Totally destroyed a mobile home in Bristol. Damage several homes and businesses. Path was not continuous.
December 2002	Tornado (F0)	Bristol	$10,000	Trees and power poles snapped off near ground. Large trees down on power lines.
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bristol	$10,000	Large trees down across two mobile homes. Some structural damage.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Bristol	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bristol	$2,000	Trees were reported blown down with damage to a shelter off of Highway 121. Time of event based on radar. The cost of damage was estimated.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Bristol	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds uprooted several trees and blew down power lines.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bristol	$1,000	Trees down on road and power lines.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bristol	$500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
January 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Bristol	-	A line of thunderstorms moved across the county in the early afternoon and produced an EF1 tornado with peak winds between 80-90 mph. The tornado touched down just west of Dogwood Road and traveled northeast toward the southside part of Bristol while weakening to EF0 intensity. The tornado lifted before approaching GA Highway 121. Damaged included many downed trees, some of which were snapped near the base and other were uprooted. The tornado toppled a small water and and produced heavy damage to farm outbuildings near Dogwood Road. A farming irrigation system was overturned in the Dogwood Road area. The tornado traveled northeast to east with sporadic damage moving across Crump Lane. Additional damage was noted around Tabby Road, just south of the intersection of Blalock Road and Tabby Road.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bristol	-	A tree was blown down.
March 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Bristol	-	A briefed tornado touched down a couple miles north of Bristol in Pierce county on Highway 32 near June Road. Both the county EM and Fire Chief saw the touchdown. Minor wind damage occurred that included 4 trees that were blown down. Peak winds were near 75 mph.
March 2018	Hail	Bristol	-	Golf ball size hail was observed in Bristol.
December 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Bristol	-	A low-end EF1 tornado damaged 7 homes, downed power lines, and snapped trees. The tornado touched down about 8 miles north of Blackshear along Walkerville Road around 12:50 pm. Low end EF1 damage was noted along the tornado path as it crossed Georgia State Road 121/15. Including damage to 7 homes, power lines and large trees snapped. EF0 damage was noted after the tornado crossed Georgia State Road 121/15, with the tornado lifting after an approximate 5.7 mile path near Spotted Farm Road and Songbird Place, or about 14 miles north of Blackshear. The tornado width varied from 60-100 yards.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bristol	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in the Bristol area.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bristol	-	Trees were blown down across the county.
July 1995	Hail	Bristol	-	Thunderstorm winds uprooted several trees and blew down power lines.
April 2015	Funnel Cloud	Bristol	-	no account filed
October 2002	Hail	Bristol	-	no account filed
October 2002	Hail	Bristol	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Bristol	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Aspinwall	2.3 miles	7
Mershon	2.5 miles	7
Walkersville	5.0 miles	7
Patterson	5.8 miles	7
Offerman	6.1 miles	8
Owen	7.3 miles	8
Otter Creek	9.6 miles	8
Blackshear	9.9 miles	8

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 Bristol	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4968737	The 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 354859. 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.