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Bellevue, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Safford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36759. The Survey maps it on the Uniontown East quadrangle.

Bellevue within Dallas County

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

57 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Bellevue between 1994 and 2019, burning about 290 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
7 September 2005Debris and open burning34 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Debris and open burning4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150918-002
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150916-001
15 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150915-001
12 September 2005Arson/incendiarism16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellevue in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBellevue-Several trees uprooted along U.S. Highway 80 just west of Highway 5.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Trinity0.6 miles9
Browns0.8 miles9
Marshall2.9 miles9
Massillon4.5 miles9
Bogue Chitto6.4 miles10
Eleanor7.5 miles10
Marion Junction7.5 miles13
Westbrook8.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113885. 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.