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.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The 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 sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Reinersville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Reinersville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Reinersville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Reinersville quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Reinersville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
2 since 2015The 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 use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 April 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4728 |
| 31 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 701 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 453 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh. | 1887 | Morgan | |
![]() | Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822) | 1903 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
![]() | Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818) | 1904 | not recorded | Meigs Creek |
![]() | Merulius incarnatus Schwein. | 1906 | Collector unspecified | McConnellsville |
![]() | Puccinia graminis Pers. | 1919 | Ricker A. J. | MCCONNELSVILLE |
| Atrichopogon fusinervis (Malloch, 1915) | 1927 | F. N. | McConnelsville | |
![]() | Atrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901) | 1927 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
| Bezzia Kieffer, 1899 | 1927 | not recorded | McConnelsville | |
![]() | Dasyhelea Kieffer, 1911 | 1927 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
| Forcipomyia Meigen, 1818 | 1927 | not recorded | McConnelsville | |
![]() | Hybopsis Agassiz, 1854 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Muskingum River, at McConnelsvile, ~0.3 mi E of Malta, Morgan township |
| Hybopsis dissimilis (Kirtland, 1840) | 1927 | Trautman, 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 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D-K Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Central Ohio Coal Co. Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| D-K Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Ohio Power Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms nearby
5 since 1996The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bristol | $2,000 | no account filed |
| November 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bristol | $1,000 | One large tree and several additional tree limbs were blown down along Route 284. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bristol | - | Two trees blew down onto State Route 284 at the one and three mile markers. |
| April 2025 | Flood | Bristol | - | State Route 78 was closed from Ray Lane to Unionville Road due to flooding. |
| April 2024 | Flood | Bristol | - | State Route 78 was closed from flooding between Gerlach Road to 0.4 miles beyond Meigs Creek Road. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cabinville (historical) | 0.5 miles | 14 | |
| Otho (historical) | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Cloud (historical) | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Meigs | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Brill (historical) | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Seeleyburg (historical) | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Reinersville | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Rowland (historical) | 3.9 miles | 13 |
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 Q22033471 | 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 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.





















