Bishop, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Bishop census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78343. The Survey maps it on the Kingsville East quadrangle. 3,174 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresBishop fell from 3,305 to 3,174 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3,305 | |
| 2010 | 3,134 | -171 (-5%) |
| 2020 | 3,174 | +40 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 9 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.
- 1950 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kingsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Kingsville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
14 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bishop between 2006 and 2009, burning about 128 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BARDEN FIRE |
| 4 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 March 2009 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 1 March 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 5 February 2009 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 3 February 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 11 February 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bishop in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 5 hail, 2 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1994 | Hail | Bishop | $50,000 | A funnel cloud was first observed in western Nueces County, followed by large hail and additional funnel reports. Two funnel clouds were also sighted in Corpus Christi shortly afterward. A ham operator spotted a fourth funnel in Nueces Bay at 1800 CST. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bishop | $36,000 | Multiple accidents reported along US 77. 2 18 wheelers flipped southbound. 1 18 wheeler reported flipped northbound. |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bishop | $20,000 | Large trees were blown down in Bishop. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bishop | $20,000 | A barn roof was blown on to Highway 77. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bishop | $15,000 | Two 18 wheelers were blown over on U.S. 77. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bishop | - | Small hardwood tree limbs broken (up to 1 inch diameter). |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bishop | - | Small hardwood tree limbs broken (up to 1 inch diameter). |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bishop | - | Small hardwood tree limbs broken (up to 1 inch diameter). |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Bishop | - | Several residential roads closed around Bishop due to Flooding. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Bishop | - | FM 666 north of Bishop was closed due to flooding. |
| June 2018 | Flood | Bishop | - | Flood waters along San Fernando Creek covered County Road 101 near Farm to Market Road 70. |
| March 2015 | Flash Flood | Bishop | - | Several streets were flooded in Bishop. |
| May 2014 | Flood | Bishop | - | KIII-TV sent pictures of flooding of streets in the southeast portion of the community of Bishop. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 3 inches within an hour caused water to pond in low lying areas. Pictures indicated up to a foot of water standing in the streets. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Bishop | - | Bishop Emergency Manager reported flooding occurring within the city. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Bishop | - | A quick 2 to 3 inches of heavy rainfall resulted in city-wide flash flooding of streets in Bishop.| |
| March 2006 | Hail | Bishop | - | Several reports of penny to quarter sized hail throughout Bishop. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bishop | - | Several medium and large size tree limbs reported blown down throughout Bishop. One power pole was reported snapped in half. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Bishop | - | Quarter size hail reported by Skywarn spotter at Highway 70 and CR 75. |
| July 2005 | Flash Flood | Bishop | - | Heavy rainfall resulted in several streets flooded in Bishop. NWS Doppler radar estimated nearly 5 inches of rain fell in portions of Bishop and an NWS Cooperative Observer in Bishop reported 3.79 inches of rain. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bishop | - | Large tree limbs and powerlines down across the town. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Bishop | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Bishop | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bishop | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concordia | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Palo Alto | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Driscoll | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Lost Creek | 9.1 miles | 9 | |
| Petronila | 10.5 miles | 11 | |
| Spring Gardens | 12.5 miles | 13 | |
| Tierra Grande | 13.7 miles | 11 | |
| Agua Dulce | 14.7 miles | 8 |
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 | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q583637 | 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 1330715. 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.







