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.
Population over time
3 figuresBloomington 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2,562 | |
| 2010 | 2,459 | -103 (-4%) |
| 2020 | 2,082 | -377 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1951 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Port Lavaca quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
124 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 65 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OLD PORT LAVACA ROAD |
| 27 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | COLORADO FIRE |
| 22 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROGERS STREET FIRE |
| 20 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | INDIANA RD |
| 18 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SERENE DRIVE FIRE |
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 616 GRASS FIRE |
| 9 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIFTH STREET FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomington | $100,000 | Carport 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 2021 | Flash Flood | Bloomington | $30,000 | State Highway 185 was closed due to flooding in Bloomington with cars stalled from 3rd to 8th Streets. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Bloomington | $500 | Heavy 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 2021 | Flash Flood | Bloomington | - | Law enforcement reported multiple roads closed at Bloomington due to flooding. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Bloomington | - | 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 2008 | Hail | Bloomington | - | Observed at Bloomington High School. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Bloomington | - | Reported on Highway 185. |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomington | - | Power lines blown down and large trees uprooted. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomington | - | The County Sheriff's Office reported several trees uprooted in Black Bayou. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Bloomington | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Bloomington | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Bloomington | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Bloomington | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomington | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Bloomington | - | 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.
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 Bloomington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981314 | 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 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.





