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.
Then and now
1901 to 1992The 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.


Compare 1901 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 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.
- 1901 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Shawnee Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Shawnee Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Shawnee Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Shawnee Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Shawnee Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 2,527 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1850 | Kugel, B. (Burt) | near Selma, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1860 | Ricke, A. S. | Carlisle, Ohio, USA |
| Vernonia maxima Small | 1871 | Collector unspecified | Scioto | |
![]() | Centronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829) | 1872 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Ophioglossum vulgatum L. | 1873 | Hussey, J. | |
![]() | Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1874 | not recorded | Sugar Grove, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Branta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776) | 1874 | not recorded | Lake Erie, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Melospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834) | 1874 | Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard) | Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Phalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1874 | Jasper, T. (Theodore) | Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA |
![]() | Zonotrichia leucophrys (J.R.Forster, 1772) | 1874 | not recorded | Columbus, O, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1875 | not recorded | Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA |
| Cygnus columbianus (Ord, 1815) | 1875 | not recorded | Ohio Lake Erie, Ohio, USA |
All 2,527 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
4 within 5 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owens Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Owens Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Shawnee Division Quarries | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Union Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms nearby
3 since 2013The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2020 | Flood | Bellepoint | - | High water was reported on several roads throughout the county. |
| June 2018 | Flood | Bellepoint | - | Ponding of water, six inches deep, was reported on South Section Line Road. |
| December 2013 | Flood | Bellepoint | - | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klondike | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| White Sulphur | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Scioto | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Sandy Hill | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Rathbone | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Ostrander | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Scioto Village | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Fairview Corners | 3.9 miles | 13 |
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 Bellepoint | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133530 | 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 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.
























