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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.

Bishop within Nueces County

Population over time

3 figures

Bishop 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.

YearPeople Change
20003,305
20103,134-171 (-5%)
20203,174+40 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 9 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

14 since 2006

Regional 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
Smoking6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARDEN FIRE
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 March 2009Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 March 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 February 2009Smoking5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 February 2009Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 February 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994HailBishop$50,000A 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 2025Thunderstorm WindBishop$36,000Multiple accidents reported along US 77. 2 18 wheelers flipped southbound. 1 18 wheeler reported flipped northbound.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindBishop$20,000Large trees were blown down in Bishop.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBishop$20,000A barn roof was blown on to Highway 77.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindBishop$15,000Two 18 wheelers were blown over on U.S. 77.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBishop-Small hardwood tree limbs broken (up to 1 inch diameter).
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBishop-Small hardwood tree limbs broken (up to 1 inch diameter).
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBishop-Small hardwood tree limbs broken (up to 1 inch diameter).
June 2024Flash FloodBishop-Several residential roads closed around Bishop due to Flooding.
May 2021Flash FloodBishop-FM 666 north of Bishop was closed due to flooding.
June 2018FloodBishop-Flood waters along San Fernando Creek covered County Road 101 near Farm to Market Road 70.
March 2015Flash FloodBishop-Several streets were flooded in Bishop.
May 2014FloodBishop-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 2010Flash FloodBishop-Bishop Emergency Manager reported flooding occurring within the city.
July 2007Flash FloodBishop-A quick 2 to 3 inches of heavy rainfall resulted in city-wide flash flooding of streets in Bishop.|
March 2006HailBishop-Several reports of penny to quarter sized hail throughout Bishop.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindBishop-Several medium and large size tree limbs reported blown down throughout Bishop. One power pole was reported snapped in half.
May 2005HailBishop-Quarter size hail reported by Skywarn spotter at Highway 70 and CR 75.
July 2005Flash FloodBishop-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 2002Thunderstorm WindBishop-Large tree limbs and powerlines down across the town.
March 2008HailBishop-no account filed
May 2006HailBishop-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindBishop-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nueces 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
Concordia5.0 miles11
Palo Alto5.2 miles9
Driscoll6.7 miles11
Lost Creek9.1 miles9
Petronila10.5 miles11
Spring Gardens12.5 miles13
Tierra Grande13.7 miles11
Agua Dulce14.7 miles8

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 BishopAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q583637The 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.