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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.

Bellvue within Larimer County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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

193 since 2003

Regional 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/undetermined148
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural11
Smoking10
Debris and open burning5
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
27 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersLAPORTE
22 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
18 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
17 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A. L. Stein Ranch Uranium ProspectUraniumOccurrenceTorbernite
Boettcher Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
ChallengerTungstenProducer
Howes Gulch DistrictCopper, Gold, SilverProducer1873
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
Wahketa LeaseUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1955
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
UnknownClayOccurrenceSedimentary
Unnamed PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Larimer County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Flash FloodBellvue$25,000Heavy rain produced debris and mud flows in the High Park burn area.
June 2009HailBellvue-no account filed
June 2005HailBellvue-no account filed
May 2001HailBellvue-no account filed
May 2000HailBellvue-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larimer 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
Laporte1.8 miles28
Mountain View3.2 miles31
Kenyon Corner5.3 miles29
Fort Collins5.4 miles29
Buckingham6.1 miles29
Andersonville6.5 miles29
Drakes7.0 miles29
Omega7.7 miles29

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 BellvueAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4884229The 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.