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Belmont, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Lebanon Junction census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40150. It stands on Barley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shepherdsville quadrangle. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Belmont within Bullitt County

On record in Belmont

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

45 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Belmont between 1997 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony14
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 June 2000Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullitt County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belmont in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Belmont$75,000A NWS survey, conducted with Bullitt County Emergency management, confirmed a small EF-0 tornado touched down in southern Bullitt County, just east of the eastern boundary of Fort Knox Army Base. This rain-wrapped tornado was only on the ground for about minute, with most of its damage limited to large limbs and weaker tree trunks being snapped. The tornado started along Belmont Rd (KY Highway 251) 0.7 miles west of Belmont, then traveled east-northeast through the community of Belmont, and lifting just east of Church Street. At least three homes were damaged, two from trees falling on them, with minor roofing damage to a third. Trees also fell on at least two out buildings. The storm that spawned this tornado was the same one that produced an EF-0 moments earlier 11 miles to the west.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBelmont-A tree was blown down near the intersection of Wilson Creek Road and Pine Tavern Road.
March 2022Tornado (EF1)Belmont-This tornado was associated with the same parent thunderstorm as the Rineyville, KY tornado in Hardin County. This tornado redeveloped along Wilson Creek Road where several hard and soft wood trees were observed to be down in several directions, which included both snapped and uprooted trees. A carport roof was also partially blown away. The tornado then crossed Wilson Creek Road (Route 733) and affected several nearby residences with more tree damage to both hard and soft wood trees. No visible damage was observed toward the next hill side beyond the nearby farm property line.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBelmont-Telephone poles downed. Report from county dispatch.
March 2017HailBelmont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bullitt 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
Old Belmont (historical)0.7 miles12
Bardstown Junction3.1 miles12
Limestone Springs3.4 miles12
Beech Grove3.4 miles13
Scuffletown3.8 miles7
Clermont4.0 miles12
Poplar Level4.3 miles12
Lebanon Junction4.4 miles7

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 BelmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4884290The 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 486830. 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.