Septic records and services in Bristol, Tennessee

In Sullivan County, Tennessee, which covers Bristol, we have measured 17,620 parcels on septic and 40,028 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Bristol on its own and this page does not estimate one.

What Bristol is, in the records

Bristol is a city in Sullivan County, Tennessee. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 36.558549, -82.217001 and its land area at 32.71 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the city level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.

What we hold for the county that covers Bristol

We have not yet collected septic documents from Sullivan County, Tennessee, so for a Bristol property the county's own file is currently the only route. This page is about getting you to it, not about pretending we hold something we do not. The county is genuinely mixed: 17,620 of 57,648 classified parcels are on septic and the rest are sewered. Which side of that line a Bristol address falls on is worth establishing before anything else. The county publishes a records portal that we were able to search without creating an account, which makes checking a specific parcel something you can do yourself in a few minutes.

Start from who you are

Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.

Questions people ask

Does Parcel Perfect have a septic count for Bristol?

No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Sullivan County, Tennessee, which covers Bristol, we have measured 17,620 parcels on septic and 40,028 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Bristol on its own and this page does not estimate one.

Which county is Bristol in?

Bristol is in Sullivan County, Tennessee.

Records and services around Bristol

• Sullivan County septic records — what we hold, and where the county keeps the originals
• Tennessee septic regulations — the rules that actually bind here, which no page on this site restates from memory
• Tennessee septic records index

ZIP codes that overlap Bristol

From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Bristol’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.

• ZIP 37620 (86% of the city)
• ZIP 37618 (9% of the city)
• ZIP 37617 (5% of the city)

Nearest other places

Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Bristol.

• Walnut Hill — 2.8 mi
• Blountville — 6.5 mi
• Bluff City — 7.6 mi
• Hunter — 11.4 mi
• Biltmore — 13.1 mi
• Orebank — 13.7 mi
• Watauga — 13.8 mi
• Elizabethton — 15.2 mi
• Oak Grove — 15.2 mi
• Spurgeon — 15.7 mi
• Colonial Heights — 15.8 mi
• Central — 16.2 mi
• Bloomingdale — 16.2 mi
• Butler — 17.2 mi
• Gray — 17.3 mi
• Johnson City — 17.5 mi
• Valley Forge — 17.6 mi
• Kingsport — 18.3 mi
• Pine Crest — 19.0 mi
• Hampton — 19.6 mi
• Sullivan Gardens — 21.3 mi
• Jonesborough — 23.2 mi
• Mountain City — 23.7 mi
• Unicoi — 24.1 mi
• Fall Branch — 24.7 mi
• Mount Carmel — 25.0 mi
• Roan Mountain — 27.0 mi
• Church Hill — 27.7 mi

Get the septic design for a property here

Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Sullivan County, Tennessee.

Open the parcel map and design tool