Bellevue, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bellevue-Joy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76228. The Survey maps it on the Bellevue quadrangle. 289 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBellevue fell from 362 to 289 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 | 362 | |
| 2020 | 289 | -73 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Bellevue quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
87 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Bellevue between 2005 and 2020, burning about 23,283 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 6 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 | 33 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HORTON RESIDENCE |
| 2 September 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WEST SCALING ROAD FIRE |
| 15 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DARK HOLLOW FIRE |
| 13 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,900 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAT ON ROAD FIRE |
| 13 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2006 | Natural | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2006 | Natural | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
41 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellevue in 41 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 29 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Bellevue | 2 hurt, $50,000 | A tornado, probably a gustnado, overturned a mobile home on FM 1288 on the southwest side of Bellevue. A man and woman were injured inside the trailer and were taken to local hospitals. Tree limbs up to 8 inches in diameter were blown down and roofs were damaged on several homes. Two barns in the area were also destroyed. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellevue | $50,000 | Thunderstorms developed in the western part of north Texas during the late morning and afternoon hours on the 26th and moved east and northeast. These storms produced two tornadoes, hail up to baseball size and damaging winds. A brief F0 tornado occurred at 1150 CST in an open field three miles south of Anarrowene. A second tornado developed from the same storm three miles southeast of Anarrowene at 1205 CST and traveled northeast 9.5 miles before dissipating at 1227 CST 4.5 miles southwest of Windthorst. This tornado destroyed a mobile home and a small house, severely damaged another mobile home and a barn, damaged a tank battery, and downed a large radio tower, power lines, and power poles. The tornado tipped over a partially filled 210 barrel oil storage tank and rolled it 200 yards. This F2 mainly traveled across open fields and had an averaged width of 150 yards. Damage to the small house was estimated at $30,000. Strong thunderstorm winds overturned a tractor-semitrailer and damaged a building 0.5 miles south of Bellevue, downed power lines in Bellevue, and destroyed a house in Windthorst. Hail up to two inches in diameter damaged cars and broke out windshields in Bellevue. Dime size hail covered the ground five miles south of Henrietta. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellevue | $30,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed one mobile home and two barns and blew siding off of several other mobile homes. A 40x40 foot sign on high beams was blown down, and the tops of eight utility poles were blown off. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellevue | $20,000 | RV overturned on highway 287. No injuries reported. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellevue | $10,000 | An 18-wheeler was overturned on US Hwy 287 by severe thunderstorm winds. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Bellevue | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellevue | $2,000 | Power poles were downed. |
| April 2026 | Tornado (EFU) | Bellevue | - | A well-developed satellite tornado was observed adjacent to the primary tornado north-northeast of Shannon. The specific location of this tornado is estimated. |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Bellevue | - | Two independent storm chasers got video of a small, brief tornado near US Highway 287 on the northwest side of Bellevue. No damage was reported. |
| April 2004 | Flash Flood | Bellevue | - | During the evening of April 22 and early morning of April 23, a thunderstorm formed ahead of a front and near another surface boundary. The thunderstorm remained nearly stationary over extreme southern Clay County in western north Texas, producing flash flooding near Bellevue, TX. Emergency management officials closed Highway 287 about 1 mile south of Bellevue after floodwaters overtopped the highway at 8:20 pm CDT on April 22, and floodwaters as deep as 3 feet were seen 2 miles northeast of Bellevue at 12:30 am CDT on April 22. Storm total rainfall amounts in southern Clay County topped 5 inches in some places. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellevue | - | Severe thunderstorm winds in Clay County reached 60 mph in Bellevue. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Bellevue | - | Severe thunderstorms produced three tornados and large hail as they moved south of the Red River. The first tornado touched down four miles southwest of Burkburnett, where it downed trees. The second touchdown was near Burkburnett, and the third tornado was spotted two miles south-southeast of Joy in Clay County. All three tornados were brief with no major damage, and all were rated at F0. In addition to the tornados, severe thunderstorms also dropped baseball-size hail 14 miles west of Benjamin in Knox County. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Bellevue | - | Thunderstorm in the western part of north Texas during the evening hours on the 24th produced hail in excess of quarter-size and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds blew shingles off of roofs from 10 to 12 miles east of Henrietta. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Bellevue | - | Thunderstorms developed in the western part of north Texas during the late morning and afternoon hours on the 26th and moved east and northeast. These storms produced two tornadoes, hail up to baseball size and damaging winds. A brief F0 tornado occurred at 1150 CST in an open field three miles south of Anarrowene. A second tornado developed from the same storm three miles southeast of Anarrowene at 1205 CST and traveled northeast 9.5 miles before dissipating at 1227 CST 4.5 miles southwest of Windthorst. This tornado destroyed a mobile home and a small house, severely damaged another mobile home and a barn, damaged a tank battery, and downed a large radio tower, power lines, and power poles. The tornado tipped over a partially filled 210 barrel oil storage tank and rolled it 200 yards. This F2 mainly traveled across open fields and had an averaged width of 150 yards. Damage to the small house was estimated at $30,000. Strong thunderstorm winds overturned a tractor-semitrailer and damaged a building 0.5 miles south of Bellevue, downed power lines in Bellevue, and destroyed a house in Windthorst. Hail up to two inches in diameter damaged cars and broke out windshields in Bellevue. Dime size hail covered the ground five miles south of Henrietta. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellevue | - | Thunderstorms developed in the western part of north Texas during the late morning and afternoon hours on the 26th and moved east and northeast. These storms produced two tornadoes, hail up to baseball size and damaging winds. A brief F0 tornado occurred at 1150 CST in an open field three miles south of Anarrowene. A second tornado developed from the same storm three miles southeast of Anarrowene at 1205 CST and traveled northeast 9.5 miles before dissipating at 1227 CST 4.5 miles southwest of Windthorst. This tornado destroyed a mobile home and a small house, severely damaged another mobile home and a barn, damaged a tank battery, and downed a large radio tower, power lines, and power poles. The tornado tipped over a partially filled 210 barrel oil storage tank and rolled it 200 yards. This F2 mainly traveled across open fields and had an averaged width of 150 yards. Damage to the small house was estimated at $30,000. Strong thunderstorm winds overturned a tractor-semitrailer and damaged a building 0.5 miles south of Bellevue, downed power lines in Bellevue, and destroyed a house in Windthorst. Hail up to two inches in diameter damaged cars and broke out windshields in Bellevue. Dime size hail covered the ground five miles south of Henrietta. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Bellevue | - | Thunderstorms in the western part of North Texas during the evening hours on the 25th produced one tornado, hail up to two inches in diameter and damaging winds. A tornado touched down two miles north of Quanah at 1815 CST. The F0 tornado occurred in an open field and no damage was reported. Thunderstorm winds estimated at 100 mph in combination with two inch diameter hail destroyed a 20 x 20 foot storage building, damaged a satellite dish and several homes, broke windows, downed fences and telephone poles, stripped bark from trees and destroyed the cotton and watermelon crops 4.5 miles north-northeast of Quanah. Thunderstorm winds damaged roofs and knocked down trees and transformers in Quanah, tore the roofs off of several barns just east of Quanah, knocked down the front of a store and severely damaged the roof, downed numerous trees and tree limbs and damaged railroad crossing gates in Chillicothe, damaged the roof and a door of a doctors clinic in Vernon and downed tree limbs in Benjamin and Odell. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Bellevue | - | Thunderstorm in the western part of north Texas during the evening hours on the 24th produced hail in excess of quarter-size and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds blew shingles off of roofs from 10 to 12 miles east of Henrietta. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellevue | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vashti | 5.8 miles | 7 | |
| Buffalo Springs | 8.7 miles | 7 | |
| Dickworsham | 9.6 miles | 8 | |
| Joy | 11.5 miles | 7 | |
| Newport | 11.6 miles | 7 | |
| Bluegrove | 11.7 miles | 7 | |
| Edwards | 13.1 miles | 8 | |
| Huggins | 14.1 miles | 8 |
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 Bellevue | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972680 | 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 1351848. 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.
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.



