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Bristol, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ferris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75119. The Survey maps it on the Bristol quadrangle. 714 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 486 feet above sea level.

Bristol within Ellis County

Population over time

2 figures

Bristol grew from 668 to 714 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.

YearPeople Change
2010668
2020714+46 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

37 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Bristol between 2007 and 2019, burning about 753 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
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking2
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
4 September 2011Debris and open burning45 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJONES RD/FERRIS
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
20 September 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNION HILL
3 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEWTON ROAD
22 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHMELAR RD
31 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 July 2012Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHALL STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bristol in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBristol$15,000A storm chaser reported damage to a wooden patio structure, and to the retractable door of a metal outbuilding in Palmer, TX.
October 2011HailBristol-Quarter sized hail was reported in Bristol.

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Walnut Springs4.3 miles19
Alsdorf4.3 miles11
Crisp4.4 miles11
Sand Lake4.6 miles9
India5.0 miles19
Trumbull5.4 miles11
Palmer5.6 miles11
Telico6.9 miles11

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 BristolAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5734059The 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 1331279. 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.