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Bristol County, Rhode Island
Bristol County is a county located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of the 2010 census, the population was 49,875,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/44/44001.html )〕 making it the least populous county in Rhode Island. In terms of land area it is the third smallest county in the United States, at only . The county was created in 1747 when it was separated from Bristol County, Massachusetts.
Bristol County is included in the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT Combined Statistical Area.
==History==
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 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.〔''History of Bristol County, Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Part 1'' edited by Duane Hamilton Hurd. J.W. Lewis and Co., 1883. (). p. 1.〕
See Bristol County, Massachusetts for later land transfers between Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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