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.
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
- Vermillion Creek Crossing, Oregon Traillisted 1975
Population over time
2 figuresBelvue 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 205 | |
| 2020 | 177 | -28 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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 Wamego quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Belvue quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 201546 |
| 4 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 201525 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 46 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1821 |
| 31 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3 |
| 21 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 42 |
| 13 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 250 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2 |
| 1 March 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 24 |
| 20 February 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | $60,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | $20,000 | Strong winds downed power poles near Belvue. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were downed near Belvue. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Reports of power poles down across railroad tracks, limbs down, and power lines down across Belvue. |
| April 2025 | Tornado (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 2024 | Hail | Belvue | - | Report from Twitter. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Personal weather station measured gust. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Belvue | - | Half dollar sized hail reported. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Wind gust of 86 mph measured on a mobile mesonet along US highway 24. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Partial rooftop damage to a residential home, possibly associated with a tornado. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Trained spotter measured the wind gust. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Estimated wind gust. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Tree limbs up to 4.5 inches in diameter down. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Belvue | - | 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 2010 | Flood | Belvue | - | Water flowed across US Highway 24, west of St. Mary's, near mile marker 343. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Belvue | - | Dime to nickel size hail. |
| July 2001 | Flood | Belvue | - | Four inches of rain in a short period caused water to overlow U.S. Highway 24 near Belvue for a time. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Belvue | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Marys | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Wamego | 6.8 miles | 17 | |
| Louisville | 7.6 miles | 16 | |
| Emmett | 9.0 miles | 16 | |
| Laclede | 9.3 miles | 16 | |
| Aikins | 10.9 miles | 16 | |
| Saint Clere | 12.4 miles | 16 | |
| Saint George | 13.0 miles | 18 |
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 Belvue | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1209376 | 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 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.







