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Bloomington, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Victoria South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77951. The Survey maps it on the Bloomington quadrangle. 2,082 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Bloomington within Victoria County

Population over time

3 figures

Bloomington fell from 2,562 to 2,082 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
20002,562
20102,459-103 (-4%)
20202,082-377 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

124 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Bloomington between 2006 and 2020, burning about 607 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Debris and open burning26
Equipment and vehicle use15
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD PORT LAVACA ROAD
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLORADO FIRE
22 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceROGERS STREET FIRE
20 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceINDIANA RD
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSERENE DRIVE FIRE
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 616 GRASS FIRE
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIFTH STREET FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Victoria County

Storms near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomington in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2011Thunderstorm WindBloomington$100,000Carport roof blown off of a home. Roof partially caved in and windown blown out of another home. A power pole was blown down. A shed was blown into a nearby house and street. Winds of 70 mph were estimated by a NWS storm survey team.
May 2021Flash FloodBloomington$30,000State Highway 185 was closed due to flooding in Bloomington with cars stalled from 3rd to 8th Streets.
May 1993Tornado (F0)Bloomington$500Heavy rain within the City of Victoria caused several streets to closed. The County Sheriff's Office reported a tornado near Highway 87 east of Bloomington. Several Highway Department barrels were over turned and blown around. A tornado was also reported by the public near Mc Faddin at the same time. Wind gust to 64 MPH were recorded at the National Weather Service Office in Victoria.
May 2021Flash FloodBloomington-Law enforcement reported multiple roads closed at Bloomington due to flooding.
June 2015Flash FloodBloomington-A public web cam showed fields and county roads flooded southeast of Victoria. A COCORAHS observer reported fields under water and county roads flooded. Observer recorded rainfall amount of 7.73 inches. A portion of State Highway 185 was closed.
March 2008HailBloomington-Observed at Bloomington High School.
March 2006HailBloomington-Reported on Highway 185.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindBloomington-Power lines blown down and large trees uprooted.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindBloomington-The County Sheriff's Office reported several trees uprooted in Black Bayou.
May 2006HailBloomington-no account filed
April 2005HailBloomington-no account filed
May 2002HailBloomington-no account filed
May 2001HailBloomington-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindBloomington-no account filed
April 1995HailBloomington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Victoria 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
Dernal4.3 miles8
Placedo4.6 miles8
Dacosta5.1 miles8
Guadalupe7.4 miles8
Hughes8.3 miles8
McFaddin9.1 miles8
Carr9.5 miles8
Wood Hi10.5 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 BloomingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981314The 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 1352429. 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.