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Belvue, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Belvue Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66407. The Survey maps it on the Belvue quadrangle. 177 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Belvue within Pottawatomie County

On record in Belvue

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Belvue fell from 205 to 177 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
2010205
2020177-28 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Belvue between 2015 and 2018, burning about 837 acres 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2

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
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service201546
4 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service201525
28 April 2018Debris and open burning46 acresKansas Forest Service1821
31 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresKansas Forest Service3
21 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresKansas Forest Service42
13 March 2015Debris and open burning250 acresKansas Forest Service2
1 March 2017Smokingunder an acrePottawatomie County24
20 February 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belvue in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 17 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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
March 1996Thunderstorm WindBelvue$60,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBelvue$20,000Strong winds downed power poles near Belvue.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBelvue$2,000Trees and power lines were downed near Belvue.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBelvue-Reports of power poles down across railroad tracks, limbs down, and power lines down across Belvue.
April 2025Tornado (EF0)Belvue-What appeared to begin as a gustnado became connected to the storm updraft at least briefly along the leading edge of a thunderstorm as it moved through the small town of Belvue. The small vortex moved ENE for a few miles doing minor damage to trees and outbuildings before dissipating as strong outflow winds overwhelmed it.
March 2024HailBelvue-Report from Twitter.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBelvue-Personal weather station measured gust.
May 2023HailBelvue-Half dollar sized hail reported.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBelvue-Wind gust of 86 mph measured on a mobile mesonet along US highway 24.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBelvue-Partial rooftop damage to a residential home, possibly associated with a tornado.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBelvue-Trained spotter measured the wind gust.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBelvue-Estimated wind gust.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBelvue-Wind gusts estimated.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBelvue-Tree limbs up to 4.5 inches in diameter down.
June 2010Flash FloodBelvue-Two vehicles were washed off the road on Oregon Trail Road 3 miles northwest of St. Mary's. Onaga Road closed due to flood waters about 18 inches deep flowing over the road 6 to 7 miles north of Belvue and 4 miles south of Onaga.
July 2010FloodBelvue-Water flowed across US Highway 24, west of St. Mary's, near mile marker 343.
June 2008HailBelvue-Dime to nickel size hail.
July 2001FloodBelvue-Four inches of rain in a short period caused water to overlow U.S. Highway 24 near Belvue for a time.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBelvue-no account filed
August 2019HailBelvue-no account filed
May 2018HailBelvue-no account filed
May 2018HailBelvue-no account filed
June 2011HailBelvue-no account filed
September 2010HailBelvue-no account filed
May 2010HailBelvue-no account filed
March 2006HailBelvue-no account filed
October 2005HailBelvue-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBelvue-no account filed
August 2000HailBelvue-no account filed
August 2000HailBelvue-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBelvue-no account filed
June 1998HailBelvue-no account filed
June 1998HailBelvue-no account filed
June 1998HailBelvue-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindBelvue-no account filed
June 1995HailBelvue-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Saint Marys5.9 miles16
Wamego6.8 miles17
Louisville7.6 miles16
Emmett9.0 miles16
Laclede9.3 miles16
Aikins10.9 miles16
Saint Clere12.4 miles16
Saint George13.0 miles18

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 BelvueAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1209376The 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 476427. 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.