Bellvue, Colorado
28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Fort Collins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80512. It lies near Long Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Laporte quadrangle. It stands 5,135 feet above sea level.
On record in Bellvue
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 6 records
Arrowhead Lodgelisted 1992
Bingham Homestead Rural Historic Landscapelisted 2013
Jacob and Elizabeth Flowers Houselisted 2007
Pleasant Valley Schoollisted 2003- Buckhorn Ranger Station Historic Districtlisted 2022
- Hollemon-Smith Homestead and Ranchlisted 2023
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 28 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.
- 1906 USGS Fort Collins quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1907 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1908 USGS Fort Collins quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1909 USGS Livermore quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS LaPorte quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Laporte quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Fort Collins quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
193 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Bellvue between 2003 and 2020, burning about 10,423 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined | 148 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 27 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT COLLINS |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LAPORTE |
| 22 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 18 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 17 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Bellvue: 5 occurrences, 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Copper, Gold, Silver, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. L. Stein Ranch Uranium Prospect | Uranium | Occurrence | Torbernite | |
| Boettcher Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Challenger | Tungsten | Producer | ||
| Howes Gulch District | Copper, Gold, Silver | Producer | 1873 | |
| Unknown | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Wahketa Lease | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Clay | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unnamed Pit | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellvue in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2013: 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laporte | 1.8 miles | 28 | |
| Mountain View | 3.2 miles | 31 | |
| Kenyon Corner | 5.3 miles | 29 | |
| Fort Collins | 5.4 miles | 29 | |
| Buckingham | 6.1 miles | 29 | |
| Andersonville | 6.5 miles | 29 | |
| Drakes | 7.0 miles | 29 | |
| Omega | 7.7 miles | 29 |
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 Bellvue | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4884229 | 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 177195. 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.












