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.
Population over time
2 figuresBishop 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 193 | |
| 2020 | 211 | +18 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1934 USGS Cliffside quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Cliffside quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Cliffside quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
100 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 46 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SMITH |
| 1 September 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ESCOBETO |
| 9 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TWO DEER |
| 7 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KIRK |
| 7 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BALL |
| 4 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MILLER |
| 31 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WESTERN #2 |
| 22 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WESTERN ST |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Asarco Zinc Smelter | Zinc | Plant | ||
| U S Bureau of Mines Helium-Plant | Helium | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cliffside | 1.0 miles | 11 | |
| Gentry | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Soncy | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Amarillo | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Bushland | 7.6 miles | 7 | |
| Dumas Junction | 8.5 miles | 8 | |
| Juilliard | 8.5 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 Bishop Hills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978348 | 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 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.





