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Bellville, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jennings census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32053. The Survey maps it on the Pinetta quadrangle.

Bellville within Hamilton County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bellville, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Bellville, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Bellville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 794 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 11 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
Debris and open burning64
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2

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
27 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFERN (40)
20 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCR152-2(24-04)
20 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOUNTY RD 152 (24-04)
2 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNW CR152 (24-04)
13 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Natural5.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LOWNDES-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellville in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBellville$200A tree was blown down at 152 Lake Alcyone. Cost of damage was estimated.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBellville$200A tree was blown down at NW 26th Lane and NW 23rd Blvd. The cost of damage was estimated.
April 2024Heavy RainBellville-Measured rainfall in the past 6 hours about 5 miles north of Blue Springs was 4.37 inches.
December 2023Heavy RainBellville-A mesonet site near Blue Springs measured 2.87 inches of storm total rainfall.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBellville-A tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBellville-Two trees were blown down near Bellville. The time of damage was based on radar.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindBellville-Law enforcement reported trees down and blocking roadways near Bellville.
April 2009FloodBellville-Backwater flooding from creeks has caused NW 16th Avenue in Bellville, near Jasper, to be closed due to water over the road.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Octahatchee3.7 miles7
Blue Springs7.8 miles11
Jennings8.5 miles8
Crossroads9.7 miles11
West Lake9.9 miles8
Alapaha (historical)11.0 miles8
Avoca12.3 miles8
Adams14.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294672. 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.

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.