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.
Population over time
2 figuresBellamy 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 543 | |
| 2020 | 363 | -180 (-33%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Bellamy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160910-10 |
| 6 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 July 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 May 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 May 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 May 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 April 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2004 | Heavy Rain | Bellamy | 1 killed | Heavy 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 2005 | Lightning | Bellamy | $7,000 | Cloud to ground lightning was responsible for a wildfire near US 80 in eastern Sumter County. |
| March 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellamy | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellamy | $1,000 | A few trees were blown down in and around Bellamy. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellamy | $500 | One tree was blown down in Bellamy. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellamy | $200 | Ten 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 2005 | Hail | Bellamy | - | Penny size hail fell in and around the Bellamy community. |
| October 2004 | Hail | Bellamy | - | Penny size hail fell near Bellamy. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Bellamy | - | Penny size hail fell along the Tombigbee River in southeast Sumter County. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Bellamy | - | Dime size hail was reported in Bellamy. |
| April 1999 | Hail | Bellamy | - | Dime size hail fell in Bellamy and in Coatopa. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Bellamy | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Bellamy | - | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Hail | Bellamy | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lilita | 2.4 miles | 9 | |
| Arrington (historical) | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Coatopa | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Brewersville | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Intercourse | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Whitfield | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Zion Hill | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Derby | 6.4 miles | 10 |
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 Bellamy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4115041 | The 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.




