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Bristol, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bristol Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43756. It stands on Mans Fork. The Survey maps it on the Reinersville quadrangle.

Bristol within Morgan County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bristol, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bristol, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 nearby

2 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bristol between 2015 and 2016, burning about 26 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
18 April 2016Recreation and ceremony25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4728
31 March 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources701

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 453 shown

Museums hold 453 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bristol between 1887 and 1974: 359 Animalia, 85 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas W.) and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Peziza soleniiformis, not of this specimenPeziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.1887Morgan
A photograph of the species Chondestes grammacus, not of this specimenChondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)1903not recordedMcConnelsville
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)1904not recordedMeigs Creek
A photograph of the species Merulius incarnatus, not of this specimenMerulius incarnatus Schwein.1906Collector unspecifiedMcConnellsville
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Ricker A. J.MCCONNELSVILLE
Atrichopogon fusinervis (Malloch, 1915)1927F. N.McConnelsville
A photograph of the species Atrichopogon levis, not of this specimenAtrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)1927not recordedMcConnelsville
Bezzia Kieffer, 18991927not recordedMcConnelsville
A photograph of the species Dasyhelea Kieffer, not of this specimenDasyhelea Kieffer, 19111927not recordedMcConnelsville
Forcipomyia Meigen, 18181927not recordedMcConnelsville
A photograph of the species Hybopsis Agassiz, not of this specimenHybopsis Agassiz, 18541927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Muskingum River, at McConnelsvile, ~0.3 mi E of Malta, Morgan township
Hybopsis dissimilis (Kirtland, 1840)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Muskingum River, at McConnelsvile, ~0.3 mi E of Malta, Morgan township

All 453 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bristol: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
D-K PitLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Central Ohio Coal Co. MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
D-K PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ohio Power PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms nearby

5 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Bristol in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBristol$2,000no account filed
November 2017Thunderstorm WindBristol$1,000One large tree and several additional tree limbs were blown down along Route 284.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBristol-Two trees blew down onto State Route 284 at the one and three mile markers.
April 2025FloodBristol-State Route 78 was closed from Ray Lane to Unionville Road due to flooding.
April 2024FloodBristol-State Route 78 was closed from flooding between Gerlach Road to 0.4 miles beyond Meigs Creek Road.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Cabinville (historical)0.5 miles14
Otho (historical)2.1 miles14
Cloud (historical)2.3 miles13
Meigs2.4 miles13
Brill (historical)2.7 miles14
Seeleyburg (historical)3.7 miles14
Reinersville3.8 miles14
Rowland (historical)3.9 miles13

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 BristolAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22033471The 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 1070691. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.