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Belleville, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Ferguson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72824. It stands on Few Branch. The Survey maps it on the Danville quadrangle. 304 people lived here at the 2025 count. It stands 364 feet above sea level.

Belleville within Yell County

On record in Belleville

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

Population over time

3 figures

Belleville fell from 371 to 312 between 2000 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
2000371
2010441+70 (+19%)
2020312-129 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Belleville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 424 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 17 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
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2012Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsLABOR LAKE
5 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Belleville: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buford Compton Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yell County

Storms near this place

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belleville in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBelleville$100,000A mobile home was blown over and destroyed. Trees and power lines were blown down. Some houses were damaged.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBelleville$70,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. One of the trees fell on a car, trapping the occupant.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBelleville$50,000The local emergency manager reported telephone and power lines down from near Belleville to near Danville. Numerous trees were blown down, including one that blocked Arkansas Highway 307 North. Some barns and chicken houses had tin blown off their roofs. Shingles were removed from a roof near Danville. Damage was reported to an outbuilding.
January 2013Flash FloodBelleville$40,000Arkansas 27 had many places under water. In the eastern part of Danville, five people had to be evacuated from a house and a motorist stranded in high water had to be rescued.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBelleville$20,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindBelleville$15,000Trees were blown down in the Belleville area.
June 2012Dust DevilBelleville$10,000A dust devil removed tin from a chicken house and blew insulation well up into the air.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBelleville$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
March 1997Tornado (F1)Belleville$2,700no account filed
August 2014Flash FloodBelleville$1,000Water covered parts of Belleville Ridge Rd.
January 2025Flash FloodBelleville-Flooding covered Arkansas Highway 307 making it impassable along with several other roads within Yell County.
February 2023Flash FloodBelleville-The Danville chief of police reported a swift water rescue that took place at the intersection of Ideal Lane and AR State Highway 307. They successfully rescued the occupants of a vehicle in high water.
February 2023Flash FloodBelleville-Arkansas State Hwy. 307 near Bellville was completely under water.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBelleville-A tree was down in Belleville.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBelleville-Trees were down in Belleville.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBelleville-Trees and power lines downed, with one tree on a house.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindBelleville-Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines at Belleville.
May 2011HailBelleville-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindBelleville-no account filed
April 2006HailBelleville-no account filed
May 2002HailBelleville-no account filed
May 2002HailBelleville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yell 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
Corinth1.7 miles17
Millan (historical)2.7 miles17
Riley Creek (historical)3.3 miles17
Danville4.0 miles17
Havana4.5 miles18
Stafford4.5 miles18
Hickory Grove4.8 miles18
Marvinville5.7 miles18

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 BellevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q80154The 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 76294. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.