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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Bristolville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bristol Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44402. The Survey maps it on the Bristolville quadrangle.

Bristolville within Trumbull County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bristolville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bristolville, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

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.

Old Methodist Church, Bristolville, Trumbull County, OH
Old Methodist Church, Bristolville, Trumbull County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Congregational Church, State Route 45 & 88, Bristolville, Trumbull County, OH
Congregational Church, State Route 45 & 88, Bristolville, Trumbull County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 177 shown

Museums hold 177 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bristolville between 1893 and 1975: 164 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Bednarik, K. (Karl), CAROOTS, JAMES 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 Saxifraga virginiensis, not of this specimenSaxifraga virginiensis Michx.1893Chamberlin, EarlCortland
A photograph of the species Erigeron annuus, not of this specimenErigeron annuus (L.) Pers.1901I. E. DiehlOakfield
A photograph of the species Erigeron strigosus, not of this specimenErigeron strigosus var. strigosus1901I. E. DiehlOakfield
A photograph of the species Guignardia bidwellii, not of this specimenGuignardia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Plasmopara viticola, not of this specimenPlasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Pseudoperonospora cubensis, not of this specimenPseudoperonospora cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Rostovzev1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Ramularia tulasnei, not of this specimenRamularia tulasnei Sacc.1905Spencer L. G.Trumbull Co.
A photograph of the species Pero honestaria, not of this specimenPero honestaria (Walker, 1860)1912Zahrobsky, V. J. (Vance Joseph)Levittsburg, OH
A photograph of the species Sphaerium striatinum, not of this specimenSphaerium striatinum (Lamarck, 1818)1912Rush, WilliamWest Farmington, Washington Township
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data

All 177 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

13 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Bristolville in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2008HailBristolville$150,000Golf ball size hail was reported. Many vehicles sustained damage from the hail.
May 2010LightningBristolville$80,000Lightning struck a barn near Bristolville causing a barn to catch fire. The barn was completely destroyed.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindBristolville$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed an utility pole.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindBristolville$6,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindBristolville$3,000Trees were downed in Bristol Township.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindBristolville$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
May 2012HailBristolville-Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2012HailBristolville-Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2010HailBristolville-Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2010HailBristolville-Nickel to quarter size hail was observed.
August 2008HailBristolville-Quarter size hail was observed.
July 2004HailBristolville-Quarter size hail was observed.
August 2008HailBristolville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trumbull 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
Spokane1.1 miles13
North Bristol1.5 miles13
Oakfield1.8 miles13
Deacon Creek Corner1.9 miles13
East Farmington2.3 miles12
Wassie (historical)3.1 miles12
Wildare4.1 miles14
Farmington4.5 miles12

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 BristolvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4969130The 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 1056721. 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.

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.

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.