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Bellair, Florida

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Orange Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32073. The Survey maps it on the Orange Park quadrangle.

Bellair within Clay County

Then and now

1917 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bellair, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bellair, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Bellair between 1992 and 2020, burning about 537 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 26 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
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Equipment and vehicle use29
Arson/incendiarism26
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Natural15
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony6

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
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism9.2 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFELDMAN (16)
21 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresFlorida Forest Service330
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceORANGE PARK MALL (10)
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROOSEVELT BLVD (16)
3 August 1999Natural13 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bellair: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals. 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
Highland MineTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerLeucoxene, Zircon, Kyanite, Rutile

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

9 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellair in 9 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 4 heavy rain, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBellair$30,000Numerous trees and powerlines were reported down across the Orange Park area due to a downburst that began near Asbury Lake. Multiple trees fell on homes destroying the roofs along Rusmor St, Debarry Ave and Warren Ct. A tree fell on a car in Orange Park damaging the vehicle. Time was estimated by radar. AWOS station KNIP Jacksonville Nas measured a gust of 61 mph at 157 PM EST.
August 2025Heavy RainBellair-Several private weather stations in Orange Park measured near 3 inches of rain in the past hour.
September 2024Heavy RainBellair-A personal weather station Grove Park - | KFLORANG86 measured 4.42 inches of rain. | Rain began around 2 PM. About 3.3 inches of | rain fell between 6 PM and 9 PM.
September 2024FloodBellair-Street flooding was reported along DeBarry | Ave, Horton Dr, and Gano Ave. About 3 to 4 | inches of rain has fallen in this area.
July 2023FloodBellair-Minor street flooding was reported along DeBarry Avenue. This is a known flood prone location.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBellair-A tree was blown down onto a car and crushed it along Kingsley Avenue. The time of damage was based on radar and other wind damage reports in the area.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBellair-Numerous homes were damaged from fallen trees just north of Kingsley Avenue and south of the Orange Park Mall. Several cars were damaged from the fallen trees.
August 2012Heavy RainBellair-A storm total amount of 3.17 inches was measured.
June 2010Heavy RainBellair-A spotter reported street flooding at the intersection of Gano Avenue and Debarry Avenue.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Meadowbrook Terrace0.4 miles24
North Meadowbrook Terrace0.6 miles24
Camp Echockotee1.7 miles24
Orange Park1.9 miles24
Laurel Grove2.5 miles24
Holly Point2.7 miles24
Ridgewood3.4 miles24
Lakeside3.4 miles24

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 BellairAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4881869The 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 278440. 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.