Census Data for Bright Star
As far as we can tell, Bright Star has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.
While we don't have census information for Bright Star, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Alba
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Emory
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Yantis
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Grand Saline
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Fruitvale
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Point
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Quitman
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- East Tawakoni
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- East Tawakoni is located in Rains County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Tawakoni
- Edgewood
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Mineola
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Como
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Lone Oak
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
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- West Tawakoni
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- West Tawakoni is located in Hunt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Tawakoni
- Sulphur Springs
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Van
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Rains County ...
Bright Star is located in Rains County<2>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Rains County.
Miscellaneous Information for Bright Star ...
The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Rains County or the community of Bright Star:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Bright Star:
- GNIS ID for Bright Star: 1378048
- GNIS ID for Rains County: 1383975
- GNIS ID for State of Texas: 1779801
- The FIPS Codes ...
- An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):
- State Code: 48 (Texas)
- County Code: 379 (Rains County)
- Place Code: 10300 (Bright Star)
- State & County Code: 48/379 (Texas / Rains County)
- State & Place Code: 48/10300 (Texas / Bright Star)
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Bright Star is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #7 (the West South-Central Division).
For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Bright Star.
Footnotes ...
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