Bellview, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bellview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39837. The Survey maps it on the Cooktown quadrangle.

Bellview within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Cooktown quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Bellview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,044 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 16 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 burning	129
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Arson/incendiarism	16
Natural	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	5.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MILLER003
24 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	46 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MILLER002
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellview in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellview	-	Two trees were blown down on Johnny Freeman Road.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellview	-	A tree was blown down near Bellview.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellview	-	Multiple trees were blown down on Johnny Freeman Road.
April 2016	Heavy Rain	Bellview	-	A traffic accident caused by hydroplaning resulted in two deaths and one injury in Miller county on Highway 91 between Colquitt and Newton.

Every storm recorded in Miller 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Babcock	3.8 miles	8
Cooktown	4.0 miles	8
Nicholasville (historical)	5.7 miles	8
Boykin	5.9 miles	8
Macedonia	7.0 miles	8
Colquitt	7.2 miles	8
Jeterville	8.2 miles	8
Twilight (historical)	8.6 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 354536. 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.