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.
Population over time
2 figuresBardwell 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 649 | |
| 2020 | 625 | -24 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Ennis quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Ennis West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
27 since 2008Regional 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 burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRACTABEL |
| 27 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1412860 |
| 20 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | LISKA ROAD GRASS FIRE |
| 10 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ENNIS PARKWAY FIRE |
| 3 August 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LITTLE MUSTANG CREEK |
| 10 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 10 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2000 FM 984 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Bardwell | $250,000 | Trees 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bardwell | $75,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bardwell | $5,000 | Emergency management reported that a barn was destroyed, along with out buildings blown over and fences down in Bardwell, TX. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Bardwell | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Bardwell | - | Social media image of hail around 1.5 inches in Bardwell. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bardwell | - | Winds were estimated to be near 60 mph in Bardwell. |
| February 2009 | Hail | Bardwell | - | Penny size hail fell in Bardwell. |
| December 2008 | Hail | Bardwell | - | Dime to penny-size hail was reported east of Bardwell. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Bardwell | - | Nickel size hail in Rankin. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Bardwell | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Bardwell | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Bardwell | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howard | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Ensign | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Byrd | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Rankin | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Onion Creek | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Reagor Springs | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Ennis | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Oak Grove | 6.0 miles | 11 |
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 Bardwell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981958 | 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 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.




