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.
Population over time
2 figuresBristol 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 668 | |
| 2020 | 714 | +46 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Ennis quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Bristol quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
37 since 2007Regional 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 burning | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JONES RD/FERRIS |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 20 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNION HILL |
| 3 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NEWTON ROAD |
| 22 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CHMELAR RD |
| 31 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 23 July 2012 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HALL STREET |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bristol | $15,000 | A storm chaser reported damage to a wooden patio structure, and to the retractable door of a metal outbuilding in Palmer, TX. |
| October 2011 | Hail | Bristol | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Bristol. |
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 Bristol | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5734059 | 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 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.




