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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Bellepoint, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Concord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43015. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee Hills quadrangle.

Bellepoint within Delaware County

Then and now

1901 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bellepoint, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Bellepoint, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,527 shown

Museums hold 2,527 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bellepoint between 1850 and 1975: 2,394 Animalia, 76 Plantae, 53 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer & K. Borror, Adler, K. K., Allgeyer, S. M. 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
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1850Kugel, B. (Burt)near Selma, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1860Ricke, A. S.Carlisle, Ohio, USA
Vernonia maxima Small1871Collector unspecifiedScioto
A photograph of the species Centronyx henslowii, not of this specimenCentronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829)1872not recordedLicking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedSugar Grove, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Branta bernicla, not of this specimenBranta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776)1874not recordedLake Erie, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melospiza lincolnii, not of this specimenMelospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834)1874Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard)Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phalaropus lobatus, not of this specimenPhalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Jasper, T. (Theodore)Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Zonotrichia leucophrys, not of this specimenZonotrichia leucophrys (J.R.Forster, 1772)1874not recordedColumbus, O, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Actitis macularius, not of this specimenActitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766)1875not recordedColumbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA
Cygnus columbianus (Ord, 1815)1875not recordedOhio Lake Erie, Ohio, USA

All 2,527 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bellepoint: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Owens QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Owens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shawnee Division QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Union QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms nearby

3 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Bellepoint in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 3 flood. 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
September 2020FloodBellepoint-High water was reported on several roads throughout the county.
June 2018FloodBellepoint-Ponding of water, six inches deep, was reported on South Section Line Road.
December 2013FloodBellepoint-State Route 257 was closed due to high water from the Scioto River caused by earlier heavy rainfall. Two homes were evacuated due to the threat of high water.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Klondike1.8 miles13
White Sulphur2.2 miles13
Scioto2.4 miles13
Sandy Hill3.2 miles13
Rathbone3.4 miles15
Ostrander3.5 miles13
Scioto Village3.7 miles15
Fairview Corners3.9 miles13

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 BellepointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133530The 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 1048513. 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.

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.

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.