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Bellefonte, Delaware

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Brandywine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19809. It stands on Turkey Run. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington North quadrangle. 1,225 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 187 feet above sea level.

Bellefonte within New Castle County

On record in Bellefonte

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 within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Bellefonte grew from 1,193 to 1,225 between 2010 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
20101,193
20201,225+32 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 35 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

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bellefonte between 2003 and 2014, burning about 472 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined2
Other causes1

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
2 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresPennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protectionnot named
19 April 2014Other causesunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named
19 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined470 acresNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bellefonte: 4 plants, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Titanium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Titanium, Pigment. 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
American Minerals/ Wilmington, De.ChromiumPast Producer
Edgemoor Plant TiTitanium, PigmentPlant1956
Phoenix Steel/ Claymont, De.IronPlant
Wilmington Plant DupontTitaniumPlant
Wilmington Plantozark-MahoningFluorine-FluoritePlant
Winzinger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellefonte in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 waterspout. 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 2013Thunderstorm WindBellefonte-A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees, tree limbs and signs in the town of Bellefonte.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindBellefonte-no account filed
January 1999WaterspoutBellefonte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in New Castle 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
Phillips Heights0.1 miles35
Ridgewood0.2 miles35
Stonehaven0.2 miles35
Pennyhill Terrace0.2 miles35
Hillcrest0.3 miles35
Pennyhill0.3 miles35
High Point0.3 miles35
Penny Acres0.4 miles35

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 BellefonteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q755668The 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 213628. 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.