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Bristol, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bristol Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55939. The Survey maps it on the Greenleafton quadrangle.

Bristol within Fillmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Bristol between 1994 and 2016, burning about 90 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
10 September 2003Smoking15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2016Natural10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Bristol: 5 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Franks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Apenhorst PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
A RamakerIronPast Producer
Bjortomt MineIronPast Producer
H Jones Mine ReserveIronProspect
Hovey Reserve MineIronProspect
Love MineIronPast Producer
Love MineIronPast Producer
Tesmer Reserve MineIronProspect

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bristol in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 WindBristol$90,000A path of wind damage was found near Bristol. An open air farm outbuilding was destroyed, the roof ripped off a large barn, trees and wooded electrical poles were snapped.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Bristol$8,000A small, short-lived tornado touched down northwest of Granger and traveled northeast for about a half mile. The tornado damaged a shed near the intersection of County Road 30 and 225th Avenue.
June 2008HailBristol$5,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBristol$2,500no account filed
March 2023HailBristol-Nickel sized hail was reported in Greenleafton, southwest of Preston.
April 2011HailBristol-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
Greenleafton3.3 miles8
Granger3.3 miles8
York5.3 miles7
Big Spring6.4 miles8
Cherry Grove7.0 miles7
Forestville7.2 miles8
Carimona8.0 miles8
Hutton8.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 640488. 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.