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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.

Bellaire within Sedgwick County

Population over time

2 figures

Bellaire 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.

YearPeople Change
20106,769
20208,262+1,493 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

231 since 2008

Regional 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/undetermined151
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use18
Fireworks10
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSedgwick County51529
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County51352
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County55187
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service56360
20 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service7135
4 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County44797
31 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service6617
30 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County50026

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Storms near this place

30 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBellaire$50,000A Sedgwick County EMS building had its roof blown off. Two people that were in the building had minor injuries.
July 2016Flash FloodBellaire$100Water was flowing over East 53rd Street. Water was also flowing up to the guard rails of a bridge crossing a small creek.
April 2026HailBellaire-Report received via mPing.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindBellaire-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 2023Heavy RainBellaire-A Cocorahs station reported 3.31 inches of rainfall.
July 2023Heavy RainBellaire-Broadcast news station KWCH measured 3.18 inches of rainfall.
June 2022Heavy RainBellaire-A Cocorahs observer in northeast Wichita reported 3.65 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
June 2022HailBellaire-Reported from MPing.
June 2022Heavy RainBellaire-The Cocorahs observer near Bell Aire reported 3.22 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
June 2019HailBellaire-Report from 29th and Rock.
June 2019HailBellaire-Report from 29th and Webb.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBellaire-No damage was reported.
June 2018HailBellaire-Fifty mph winds were also reported. This report came in via social media.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBellaire-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 2016HailBellaire-The report was received via social media.
April 2016HailBellaire-The report was received via social media. The time of the report was corrected.
April 2016HailBellaire-This was a delayed report that was received via Twitter.
May 2016HailBellaire-Public report via Twitter.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBellaire-The wind gust was estimated by a trained spotter.
September 2009Heavy RainBellaire-Six inches of rainfall was recorded in Bel Aire.
March 2026HailBellaire-no account filed
July 2025HailBellaire-no account filed
June 2022HailBellaire-no account filed
August 2017HailBellaire-no account filed
April 2016HailBellaire-no account filed
May 2013HailBellaire-no account filed
April 2011HailBellaire-no account filed
May 2004HailBellaire-no account filed
May 2002HailBellaire-no account filed
June 1997HailBellaire-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sedgwick 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
Arthur Heights0.5 miles19
Tolerville0.7 miles19
Kechi2.4 miles19
Minneha3.6 miles19
Greenwich3.6 miles16
Park City3.8 miles19
Wichita Heights3.9 miles19
Riverview4.5 miles19

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 BellaireAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901384The 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.