Bristow, Oklahoma

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 records

• Beard Motor Companylisted 2004
• Bristow Firestone Service Stationlisted 2007
• Bristow Motor Company Buildinglisted 1995
• Bristow Presbyterian Churchlisted 1979
• Bristow Tire Shoplisted 1995
• Creek Masonic Lodge No. 226listed 2017
• Little Deep Fork Creek Bridgelisted 2003
• Texaco Service Stationlisted 1995
• House Buildinglisted 2020
• Klingensmith Park Amphitheaterlisted 2016
• St. George Episcopal Churchlisted 2024
• Tank Farm Loop Route 66 Roadbedlisted 2006

Bristow grew from 4,222 to 4,248 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.

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.

• 1901 USGS Nuyaka quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1916 USGS Bristow quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1954 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1963 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Bristow quadrangle1:24000
• 1990 USGS Bristow quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Bristow between 2006 and 2018, burning about 4,758 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Depew
• Pulaski
• Bellvue
• Slick
• Tabor

Every fire recorded in Creek County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bristow: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Creek County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bristow in 136 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 78 hail, 55 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Creek County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1090502. 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.