Bristol County is a county located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of 2000, the population was 50,648.
The county was formed by the transfer of part of Bristol County, Massachusetts, to the state of Rhode Island, and was the subject of a long-running border dispute.
The original county was part of the Plymouth Colony and named by after its "shire town" (county seat), what is now Bristol, Rhode Island. The new Rhode Island county was formed...
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Bristol County is a county located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of 2000, the population was 50,648.
The county was formed by the transfer of part of Bristol County, Massachusetts, to the state of Rhode Island, and was the subject of a long-running border dispute.
The original county was part of the Plymouth Colony and named by after its "shire town" (county seat), what is now Bristol, Rhode Island. The new Rhode Island county was formed in 1746 with the full modern territory of Bristol, Barrington, and Warren.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 45 square miles (116 km²), of which, 25 square miles (64 km²) of it is land and 20 square miles (52 km²) of it (44.80%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 50,648 people, 19,033 households, and 13,361 families residing in the county. The population density was 2,052 people per square mile (792/km²). There were 19,881 housing units at an average density of 805 per square mile (311/km²). The...
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