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.
Then and now
1925 to 1986The 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.


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
Belmont Grange #1243listed 2006
Belmont Hotellisted 2001
Belmont Literary and Historical Society Free Librarylisted 2003
Belviderelisted 1972
Population over time
2 figuresBelmont 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 969 | |
| 2020 | 856 | -113 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1925 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1939 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
55 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 28 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 8 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 28 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 31 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 24 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 334 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ustilago candollei Tul. & C.Tul. | 1877 | Ch. H. Peck | Summit |
![]() | Calypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda | 1887 | Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook | |
![]() | Lejeunea cavifolia (Ehrh.) Lindb. | 1887 | Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook | |
![]() | Sphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schumach.) de Bary | 1877 | Peck Ch. H. | Summit |
![]() | Clavaria fusiformis Sowerby | 1885 | not recorded | Peat Moss, Brookton |
![]() | Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763 | 1888 | De Alton Saunders | Vandermark Creek |
![]() | Nowellia curvifolia (Dicks.) Mitt. | 1889 | Lucien Marcus Underwood; O. F. Cook | |
![]() | Carex interior L.H.Bailey | 1896 | G. T. Hastings | Summit |
![]() | Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1896 | F. S. Wright | NEW YORK: Allegany County; Angelica |
![]() | Glyceria striata (Lam.) Hitchc. | 1896 | G. T. Hastings | Summit. |
![]() | Chordeiles minor (J.R.Forster, 1771) | 1898 | Harry Wilber | Scio |
![]() | Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1898 | C.F. Stone | Friendship |
All 334 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
12 since 2005Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Lightning | Belmont | 1 hurt | A male was struck by lightning along Route 244 near Amity. |
| May 2011 | Flood | Belmont | $50,000 | Flooding continued from afternoon and evening thunderstorms. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Belmont | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belmont | $15,000 | Numerous trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belmont | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belmont | $12,000 | Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belmont | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Belmont | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belmont | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belmont | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belmont | $5,000 | Multiple reports of trees downed in the Town of Belmont. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belmont | $500 | A tree was reported down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belvidere | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Withey | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Valley View Estates | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Scio | 4.6 miles | 19 | |
| Friendship | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Irish Settlement (historical) | 5.6 miles | 19 | |
| Angelica | 5.9 miles | 17 | |
| Inavale | 6.4 miles | 15 |
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 Belmont | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2557385 | 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 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.



















