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Bardwell, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Waxahachie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75119. The Survey maps it on the Ennis West quadrangle. 625 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 482 feet above sea level.

Bardwell within Ellis County

Population over time

2 figures

Bardwell fell from 649 to 625 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.

YearPeople Change
2010649
2020625-24 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

27 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Bardwell between 2008 and 2016, burning about 468 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRACTABEL
27 September 2014Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1412860
20 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLISKA ROAD GRASS FIRE
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceENNIS PARKWAY FIRE
3 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLITTLE MUSTANG CREEK
10 August 2010Debris and open burning75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
10 August 2010Debris and open burning35 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2000 FM 984

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bardwell in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 hail, 3 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
March 2004Tornado (F1)Bardwell$250,000Trees and storage buildings were damaged south and southeast of Bardwell. In the south part of Ennis, a mobile home was unroofed and several 18 wheelers were blown over. A 3 year old 3,000 sq ft house was destroyed. A warehouse/office building along Interstate 45 had most of it's roof removed. Another 18 wheeler on Interstate 45 was blown over.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBardwell$75,000Thunderstorm winds were estimated to be near 90 to 100 MPH in Bardwell. Numerous trees in and around the town were reported to be flattened.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBardwell$5,000Emergency management reported that a barn was destroyed, along with out buildings blown over and fences down in Bardwell, TX.
March 2023HailBardwell$5,000no account filed
May 2025HailBardwell-Social media image of hail around 1.5 inches in Bardwell.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBardwell-Winds were estimated to be near 60 mph in Bardwell.
February 2009HailBardwell-Penny size hail fell in Bardwell.
December 2008HailBardwell-Dime to penny-size hail was reported east of Bardwell.
April 2005HailBardwell-Nickel size hail in Rankin.
April 2011HailBardwell-no account filed
May 2000HailBardwell-no account filed
May 1995HailBardwell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Howard4.2 miles9
Ensign4.3 miles11
Byrd4.3 miles9
Rankin4.4 miles9
Onion Creek5.0 miles9
Reagor Springs5.4 miles9
Ennis5.6 miles11
Oak Grove6.0 miles11

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 BardwellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981958The 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 1330034. 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.

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.