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East Bristol, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Bristol town. It lies in ZIP code area 53590. The Survey maps it on the North Bristol quadrangle. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

East Bristol within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of East Bristol between 1994 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2007Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources759
8 April 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of East Bristol: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lucille Westphal PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Bristol in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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
June 1999Thunderstorm WindEast Bristol$200,000no account filed
March 2005Thunderstorm WindEast Bristol$150,000Two barns damaged.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindEast Bristol$50,000Around one half of the roof removed from a large church. Some roof material collapsed into the church. Across the street, a pine tree was uprooted. Another pine tree snapped halfway up and landed on a machine shed.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Bristol$4,000NWS survey crew estimates 70 mph downburst winds based on three pine trees snapped and surrounding minor tree damage.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindEast Bristol$1,000Three foot diameter tree down on road.
July 2004Tornado (F0)East Bristol-A weak F0 tornado (40 to 45 mph) briefly spun up 1.6 miles southwest of East Bristol and produced no damage. Specifically, its estimated spin up location is about one-half mile west-northwest of the intersection of Mueller Rd and Russett Rd.
October 2006HailEast Bristol-no account filed
October 2006HailEast Bristol-no account filed
August 2003HailEast Bristol-no account filed
August 2003HailEast Bristol-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Bakers Corners (historical)1.8 miles9
North Bristol3.2 miles9
Prairie View Heights4.8 miles26
York Center4.8 miles24
Hilton Estates4.9 miles26
Pebble Valley5.0 miles26
Sherwood Forest Heights5.2 miles26
City View Heights6.2 miles26

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 East BristolAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5327945The 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 1564305. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.