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Belleview, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47250. The Survey maps it on the Clifty Falls quadrangle. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Belleview within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Belleview between 2004 and 2020, burning about 308 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeCEMETERY ROAD FIRE
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeCAMERA FIRE
8 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use30 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeBACON RIDGE
12 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeEAST PERIMETER FIRE IN-BOR SUMMER 2019 SUMMER
20 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeSUMMER PGM FIRE
5 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugePGM NIGHT OPS FIRE
16 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugePGM 1 FIRE
9 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined182 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeMISS FIRE IN-BOR SPRING 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Belleview: 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
Indian Kentuck Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belleview in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 2019Thunderstorm WindBelleview$10,000Multiple trees and power lines were reported down at State Road 250 and Graham Road.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBelleview-Emergency management reported that large trees fell on Graham Rd due to severe thunderstorm winds.
August 2009Flash FloodBelleview-County Road 250 was impassable. Roads near many creeks in Jefferson County were impassable.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBelleview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Bryantsburg2.1 miles8
China3.0 miles9
Canaan4.4 miles9
Wirt Station4.5 miles10
Calloway Station (historical)4.6 miles10
Ringwald5.0 miles10
Middlefork5.0 miles10
Wirt5.1 miles10

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 BelleviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4883830The 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 430779. 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.