Bellfountain, Oregon

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Southeast Benton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97456. It stands on Larsen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle. 74 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

Bellfountain within Benton County

Population over time

2 figures

Bellfountain fell from 75 to 74 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	75
2020	74	-1 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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.

1911 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:31680
1922 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1939 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Bellfountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BELLFOUNTAIN
8 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Philomath Unit	DAWSON ROAD
8 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge	NUSBAUM 15
6 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BRUCE RD FIRE
6 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge	NUSBAUM 94
4 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	WOODHALL STRIKE
3 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge	NEW SKID
23 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	CHERRY CREEK

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Bellfountain: 14 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Monroe Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Monroe Sandstone Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Melvin Becker	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Melvin Becker Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rex Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rex Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bellfountain Clay	Clay	Past Producer
Bellfountian Clay	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Benton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Alpine	2.3 miles	19
Glenbrook	4.4 miles	17
Monroe	4.6 miles	19
Dry Creek	10.6 miles	23
Philomath	12.2 miles	23
Flynn	12.3 miles	19
Noon	12.7 miles	19
Alsea	12.8 miles	12

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 Bellfountain	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4883986	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 1117497. 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.