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Bellamy, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the York census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36901. It stands on Fourth Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bellamy quadrangle. 363 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Bellamy within Sumter County

Population over time

2 figures

Bellamy fell from 543 to 363 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010543
2020363-180 (-33%)

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

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Bellamy between 1994 and 2019, burning about 800 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Smoking1

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
10 September 2016Debris and open burning30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160910-10
6 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 May 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 May 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellamy in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2012: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
March 2004Heavy RainBellamy1 killedHeavy rain and winds of 25 to 30 miles an hour moved across the Bellamy area. One tree fell down due to the saturated ground and high wind around 8:53 PM CST. The tree landed on a 50 year old man. Rescue workers attempted to free the man, but after a few hours, the man died from his injuries.
March 2005LightningBellamy$7,000Cloud to ground lightning was responsible for a wildfire near US 80 in eastern Sumter County.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindBellamy$3,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBellamy$1,000A few trees were blown down in and around Bellamy.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindBellamy$500One tree was blown down in Bellamy.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindBellamy$200Ten to 12 trees were reported downed in Bellamy in southern Sumter County. A funnel cloud was also reported near Ward in southern Sumter County.
March 2005HailBellamy-Penny size hail fell in and around the Bellamy community.
October 2004HailBellamy-Penny size hail fell near Bellamy.
March 2003HailBellamy-Penny size hail fell along the Tombigbee River in southeast Sumter County.
July 2000HailBellamy-Dime size hail was reported in Bellamy.
April 1999HailBellamy-Dime size hail fell in Bellamy and in Coatopa.
March 2012HailBellamy-no account filed
March 2005HailBellamy-no account filed
January 1996HailBellamy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Lilita2.4 miles9
Arrington (historical)2.6 miles11
Coatopa4.2 miles11
Brewersville5.2 miles13
Intercourse6.1 miles9
Whitfield6.2 miles8
Zion Hill6.3 miles13
Derby6.4 miles10

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 BellamyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4115041The 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 113871. 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.

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.