Belle Mina, Alabama
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mooresville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35615. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tanner quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.
On record in Belle Mina
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Belle Minalisted 1972- Woodsidelisted 1982
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Governor Thomas Bibb House, County Road 71, Belle Minafederal building survey, 8 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 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.
- 1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1936 USGS Tanner quadrangle1:24000
- 1938 USGS Tanner quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Tanner quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
41 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Belle Mina between 1994 and 2019, burning about 417 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 85 acres | Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge | FM 97-8 |
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190930-4 |
| 20 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 28 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190920-27 |
| 19 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge | FM 97-9 |
| 16 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belle Mina in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 1996 | Flash Flood | Belle Mina | $18,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belle Mina | $4,000 | Trees were blown down in the Belle Mina area. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Belle Mina | - | Nickel sized hail was reported in Belle Mina. |
| February 2020 | Flood | Belle Mina | - | Car submerged in floodwaters off of Mooresville Road close to Highway 20. Report relayed via social media. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belle Mina | - | Multiple trees were knocked down in Belle Mina close to the railroad tracks. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belle Mina | - | Power lines were knocked down. |
| November 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belle Mina | - | Trees and power lines were knocked down at the intersection of Garret Road and Mooresville Road. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belle Mina | - | Eight power poles snapped along Highway 20, near Greenbrier exit. |
| December 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belle Mina | - | RECORDED AT KDCU (PRYOR FIELD) ASOS |
| August 2000 | Hail | Belle Mina | - | Nickel size hail fell near the intersection of I65 and I565, near Belle Mina. |
| January 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Belle Mina | - | A funnel cloud was reported near Belle Mina. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belle Mina | - | Several trees were reported down on Power Road in Belle Mina. A power pole was broken by the wind in Greenbrier. Two airplanes were flipped over by the wind at the Mooresville Airport east of the city. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mooresville | 2.0 miles | 22 | |
| Greenbrier | 2.1 miles | 25 | |
| Sweetwater | 2.8 miles | 22 | |
| Irvington | 2.9 miles | 22 | |
| Salem Corner | 3.0 miles | 22 | |
| Whiteside | 4.2 miles | 22 | |
| Harris Station | 4.8 miles | 22 | |
| Murphree Place | 5.0 miles | 22 |
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 Belle Mina | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4883662 | 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 151675. 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.









