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Belleville, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46118. The Survey maps it on the Plainfield quadrangle. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Belleville within Hendricks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

In the county-history sources

9,884 words on this township

History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Liberty Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first settlement was made in October, 1822, on the National Road east of Belleville, by William and Thomas Hinton, James Thompson and Eobert McCracken. The first ground was cleared on the Pearson farm. "William Pope and his son, James N., who was then sixteen years old, came in the spring of 1823, which year brought into the township George Matlock, James E. Barlow, Samuel Hopkins, William Brown, William Ballard, and if not in the same year, soon came David Demoss, John Cook, Moses Crawford, John Hanna, Thomas Cooper, George Coble and Jonathan Pitts. William Hinton taught the first school in the township j

Passage source: History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885.

Thomas Hinton was the first Justice of the Peace, and "William Pope, a Baptist minister, did the first preaching, and organized tlie first Baptist church in Hendricks County, in his own house, in the autumn of 1823.

Passage source: History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885.

The first brick dwelling house in the county was built in 1830, for Jesse Cook, just south of Belleville, by Joseph Y. Pope and "William Hinton. The act authorizing the organization of Hendricks County designated the house of "William Ballard, which was on the old Terre Haute road, south of Belleville, as the place of holding the courts, but "William Ballard died before the county was organized, and George Matlock, who kept tavern on this road a mile east of Mr. Ballard's, laid off a town wliich he called Hillsboro, and made a strong eilbrt to get the conntj seat located there; but failing in this, and meeting his death in 1825 in an affray with his brother-in-law, the Hillsboro enterprise was a failure.

Passage source: History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Liberty Township - it names this place 16 more 16 times.

Fires near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Belleville in 2007, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined1

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
11 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hendricks 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 Belleville: 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
Happy Valley Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hendricks County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belleville in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2002: 5 hail. 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
May 2002HailBelleville-no account filed
September 2001HailBelleville-no account filed
April 1998HailBelleville-no account filed
April 1996HailBelleville-no account filed
April 1996HailBelleville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hendricks 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
North Belleville1.2 miles16
Cartersburg2.0 miles16
Clayton2.0 miles12
Magnetic Springs2.3 miles16
Summit2.7 miles12
Center Valley3.3 miles16
Joppa4.3 miles16
Pecksburg4.6 miles12

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 BellevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4883843The 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 430780. 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.