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Bristow, Iowa

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pittsford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50611. The Survey maps it on the Dumont North quadrangle. 145 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.

Bristow within Butler County

Population over time

2 figures

Bristow fell from 160 to 145 between 2010 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
2010160
2020145-15 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bristow in 2011, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined1

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
1 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources51260 HWY 14, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bristow: 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Witte QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bristow in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
December 2021Thunderstorm WindBristow$75,000Emergency manager reported one outbuilding leveled and another missing the north wall. Time estimated from radar.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBristow$10,000no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBristow$5,000Local radio station relayed report of grain bin damage north of Bristow. This is a delayed report.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBristow$5,000Emergency manager reported a large tree down across the road. The is a delayed report from the Butler County EM and time estimated from radar.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBristow$5,000High winds blew trees down in Bristow, snapping trees.
June 2002HailBristow$5,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBristow$5,000no account filed
June 2014HailBristow$1,000no account filed
June 1997HailBristow$1,000no account filed
May 1999HailBristow$500no account filed
June 2018Funnel CloudBristow-Trained spotter reported several quick funnels with a rapidly rotating wall cloud.
June 2017HailBristow-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
June 2014HailBristow-no account filed
June 2010HailBristow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Pilot Rock3.1 miles9
Dumont3.9 miles10
Wilmar5.1 miles9
Allison6.1 miles9
Aredale6.6 miles9
Kesley7.7 miles10
Butler Center8.4 miles9
Greene10.1 miles9

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 BristowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q579175The 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 454831. 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.