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Belleair Bluffs, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Clearwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33770. It lies near Sand Key. The Survey maps it on the Clearwater quadrangle. 2,311 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Belleair Bluffs within Pinellas County

Then and now

1921 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Belleair Bluffs, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Belleair Bluffs, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Belleair Bluffs grew from 2,031 to 2,311 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
20102,031
20202,311+280 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Belleair Bluffs between 1993 and 2016, burning about 54 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 July 2015Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEMINOLE (52)
13 July 1993Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 June 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 April 1998Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 April 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service52 102ND
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest Service52 WALSINGHAM
20 March 1996Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2016Arson/incendiarism10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWALSINGHAM ROAD (52) **

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas 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 Belleair Bluffs: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Largo Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belleair Bluffs in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
October 2023Tornado (EF0)Belleair Bluffs$5,000A very brief tornado was observed over the intracoastal waterway along the Belleair Beach causeway at 11:34 AM EST (1534Z). At 11:35 AM EST (1535Z), the tornado moved onshore and damaged the roof of an apartment building before dissipating.

Every storm recorded in Pinellas 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
Harbor Bluffs1.0 miles15
Habor Bluffs1.1 miles15
Belleair1.2 miles15
Belleair Beach1.4 miles15
Belleair Shores1.5 miles15
Largo1.8 miles15
Ridgecrest1.8 miles15
Anona1.9 miles15

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 Belleair BluffsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2156015The 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 278453. 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.