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Bishop Hills, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Canadian River Breaks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79124. The Survey maps it on the Cliffside quadrangle. 211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,488 feet above sea level.

Bishop Hills within Potter County

Population over time

2 figures

Bishop Hills grew from 193 to 211 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
2010193
2020211+18 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

100 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Bishop Hills between 2005 and 2020, burning about 7,564 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use28
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Debris and open burning6
Natural5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH
1 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceESCOBETO
9 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTWO DEER
7 August 2020Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKIRK
7 August 2019Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBALL
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMILLER
31 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESTERN #2
22 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESTERN ST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Potter County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bishop Hills: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Helium, Zinc. 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
(Facility) Asarco Zinc SmelterZincPlant
U S Bureau of Mines Helium-PlantHeliumProducer

Every working recorded in Potter 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
Cliffside1.0 miles11
Gentry3.4 miles11
Soncy4.9 miles8
Pleasant Valley6.3 miles11
Amarillo6.8 miles8
Bushland7.6 miles7
Dumas Junction8.5 miles8
Juilliard8.5 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 Bishop HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978348The 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 1802734. 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.

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.