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Belmont, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Amity town. It lies in ZIP code area 14813. It stands on Phillips Creek. The Survey maps it on the Belmont quadrangle. 856 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,391 feet above sea level.

Belmont within Allegany County

Then and now

1925 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Belmont, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Belmont, surveyed 1925

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.

On the National Register 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Belmont fell from 969 to 856 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
2010969
2020856-113 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Belmont between 2000 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 334 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 334 specimens collected within 10 miles of Belmont between 1877 and 1974: 290 Animalia, 20 Fungi, 18 Plantae, 4 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Latta, Arnold, C. P., Arnold, Charles P. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Ustilago candollei Tul. & C.Tul.Ustilago candollei Tul. & C.Tul.1877Ch. H. PeckSummit
Specimen of Calypogeia trichomanis (L.) CordaCalypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda1887Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook
Specimen of Lejeunea cavifolia (Ehrh.) Lindb.Lejeunea cavifolia (Ehrh.) Lindb.1887Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook
A photograph of the species Sphacelotheca hydropiperis, not of this specimenSphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schumach.) de Bary1877Peck Ch. H.Summit
A photograph of the species Clavaria fusiformis, not of this specimenClavaria fusiformis Sowerby1885not recordedPeat Moss, Brookton
A photograph of the species Usnea Dill., not of this specimenUsnea Dill. ex Adans., 17631888De Alton SaundersVandermark Creek
Specimen of Nowellia curvifolia (Dicks.) Mitt.Nowellia curvifolia (Dicks.) Mitt.1889Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook
A photograph of the species Carex interior, not of this specimenCarex interior L.H.Bailey1896G. T. HastingsSummit
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1896F. S. WrightNEW YORK: Allegany County; Angelica
A photograph of the species Glyceria striata, not of this specimenGlyceria striata (Lam.) Hitchc.1896G. T. HastingsSummit.
A photograph of the species Chordeiles minor, not of this specimenChordeiles minor (J.R.Forster, 1771)1898Harry WilberScio
A photograph of the species Dendroica petechia, not of this specimenDendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898C.F. StoneFriendship

All 334 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belmont in 12 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2018LightningBelmont1 hurtA male was struck by lightning along Route 244 near Amity.
May 2011FloodBelmont$50,000Flooding continued from afternoon and evening thunderstorms.
May 2011Flash FloodBelmont$50,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBelmont$15,000Numerous trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindBelmont$15,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBelmont$12,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBelmont$10,000Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down.
July 2012HailBelmont$10,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBelmont$10,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBelmont$10,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBelmont$5,000Multiple reports of trees downed in the Town of Belmont.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindBelmont$500A tree was reported down.

Every storm recorded in Allegany 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
Belvidere2.5 miles17
Withey2.9 miles19
Valley View Estates3.9 miles15
Scio4.6 miles19
Friendship5.6 miles15
Irish Settlement (historical)5.6 miles19
Angelica5.9 miles17
Inavale6.4 miles15

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 Q2557385The 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 977517. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.