Bellaire, Kansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bel Aire City. It lies in ZIP code area 67220. The Survey maps it on the Valley Center quadrangle. 8,262 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,394 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBellaire grew from 6,769 to 8,262 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6,769 | |
| 2020 | 8,262 | +1,493 (+22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1941 USGS Valley Center quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Valley Center quadrangle1:31680
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Valley Center quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Valley Center quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
231 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Bellaire between 2008 and 2019, burning about 67 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 151 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Fireworks | 10 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 51529 |
| 5 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 51352 |
| 24 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 55187 |
| 23 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 56360 |
| 20 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 7135 |
| 4 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 44797 |
| 31 August 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6617 |
| 30 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sedgwick County | 50026 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellaire in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 19 hail, 5 heavy rain, 5 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellaire | $50,000 | A Sedgwick County EMS building had its roof blown off. Two people that were in the building had minor injuries. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Bellaire | $100 | Water was flowing over East 53rd Street. Water was also flowing up to the guard rails of a bridge crossing a small creek. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Bellaire | - | Report received via mPing. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellaire | - | Trained spotter estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph with 0.5-inch hail also occurring. Nearby, several small trees were reported to be knocked down. |
| July 2023 | Heavy Rain | Bellaire | - | A Cocorahs station reported 3.31 inches of rainfall. |
| July 2023 | Heavy Rain | Bellaire | - | Broadcast news station KWCH measured 3.18 inches of rainfall. |
| June 2022 | Heavy Rain | Bellaire | - | A Cocorahs observer in northeast Wichita reported 3.65 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Bellaire | - | Reported from MPing. |
| June 2022 | Heavy Rain | Bellaire | - | The Cocorahs observer near Bell Aire reported 3.22 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Bellaire | - | Report from 29th and Rock. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Bellaire | - | Report from 29th and Webb. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellaire | - | No damage was reported. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Bellaire | - | Fifty mph winds were also reported. This report came in via social media. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellaire | - | A tree with a 15-foot diameter trunk was split and uprooted over and onto 37th Street about halfway between Rock and Webb Roads. A sign was also blown down. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Bellaire | - | The report was received via social media. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Bellaire | - | The report was received via social media. The time of the report was corrected. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Bellaire | - | This was a delayed report that was received via Twitter. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Bellaire | - | Public report via Twitter. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellaire | - | The wind gust was estimated by a trained spotter. |
| September 2009 | Heavy Rain | Bellaire | - | Six inches of rainfall was recorded in Bel Aire. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Bellaire | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Bellaire | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Bellaire | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Bellaire | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Bellaire | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Bellaire | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Bellaire | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Bellaire | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Bellaire | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Bellaire | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Heights | 0.5 miles | 19 | |
| Tolerville | 0.7 miles | 19 | |
| Kechi | 2.4 miles | 19 | |
| Minneha | 3.6 miles | 19 | |
| Greenwich | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Park City | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| Wichita Heights | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Riverview | 4.5 miles | 19 |
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 Bellaire | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2901384 | The 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 473837. 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.









