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Bellaire, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Forest Home Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49615. It stands on Cedar River. The Survey maps it on the Bellaire quadrangle. 1,053 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 627 feet above sea level.

Bellaire within Antrim County

On record in Bellaire

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 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Bellaire grew from 65 to 1,053 between 1880 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
188065
20101,086
20201,053-33 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Bellaire between 1992 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANTRIM 03 - PINE PILE
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLAIRE DISTRICT FD 272 - 2019
22 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use8.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANTRIM 01 - WOODCHIP FIRE
13 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANTRIM 07
12 August 2006Debris and open burning1.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Antrim County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bellaire: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
William W Johnston Clay PitClayPast Producer
Wilsons Farm Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Antrim County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellaire in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2006Thunderstorm WindBellaire$25,000Numerous trees downed. Roof and large deck of home near Shanty Creek heavily damaged by fallen trees.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBellaire-$10,000Numerous trees and some power lines were downed by the wind between Bellaire and Alden.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindBellaire$6,000Trees and power lines downed around and on the north side of Bellaire.
September 2025Tornado (EF1)Bellaire-An EF-1 tornado touched down on the southwest side of Bellaire and tracked northeast for nearly a mile before dissipating on the north side of Craven Park, producing spotty tree damage across the town and in the park.
August 2021Flash FloodBellaire-Water over M-88 in multiple locations.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindBellaire-Numerous trees down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBellaire-Large tree limbs down.
May 2013HailBellaire-no account filed
June 2011HailBellaire-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Antrim 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
North Arms1.2 miles15
Snowflake (historical)3.9 miles12
Clam River4.4 miles12
Pleasant Valley6.0 miles12
Central Lake6.8 miles12
Finkton7.0 miles12
Alden7.6 miles12
Creswell8.0 miles12

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 Q1825758The 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 621048. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.