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Bellamy, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Dover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64784. The Survey maps it on the Bellamy quadrangle.

Bellamy within Vernon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

In the county-history sources

643 words on this township

History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911 names this settlement in its chapter on Dover Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Dover township comprises congressional township 34, range 30. About one-third of the township was originally prairie land ; the remainder being timber land, much of which is now in cultiva¬ tion. Clear Creek, including Little Clear creek - or Little Peshaw - flows from southwest to northeast through the township, and receives also the Walnut branch, which, rising a little west of Bellamy, flows north through the eastern part of the township.

Passage source: History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911.

The prairie lies in the extreme western, the northwestern, the southwestern, the southeastern and a portion of the eastern sec¬ tions of the township. In the southeast corner of the township, on section 25, is the famous Dunnagin's grove. A little north¬ west of this grove, and between it and Bellamy, are scattered on the prairie some tumuli, which may be artificial mounds.

Passage source: History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911.

The sandstone in this township is very abundant, very promi¬ nent, and very fine. On the Walnut branch, west of Bellamy, on northwest section 23, is some very excellent gritstone, as fine, and even finer, than the famed Berean sandstone of northern Ohio, so renowned for grindstones. In other parts of the town¬ ship the same variety doubtless exists.

Passage source: History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Dover Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Fires near this place

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Bellamy between 1992 and 2018, burning about 382 acres in total. None 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
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
16 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 March 2018Arson/incendiarism74 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177303-10882-03312018-1836
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined38 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177302-10882-03252018-1723
8 February 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation118030-10882-02082015-1111
8 February 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation118032-10882-02082015-2345
3 February 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation133750-10882-02272016-1756
27 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation133748-10882-02272016-1533

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vernon County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bellamy: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Montevallo Limestone Mill No.8Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Montevallo Quarry No.8Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Vernon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellamy in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindBellamy$10,000A barn suffered minor roof damage from high winds.
October 2007HailBellamy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vernon 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
Rousertown3.1 miles17
Montevallo4.8 miles17
Sandstone5.2 miles20
Zodiac5.4 miles17
Sheldon6.2 miles17
Milo8.3 miles21
Greene Springs (historical)9.3 miles20
Bristow9.4 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 729842. 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.