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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.

Bellevue within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Bellevue 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.

YearPeople Change
2010362
2020289-73 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

Fires near this place

87 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use17
Debris and open burning11
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHORTON RESIDENCE
2 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEST SCALING ROAD FIRE
15 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDARK HOLLOW FIRE
13 September 2011Arson/incendiarism4,900 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAT ON ROAD FIRE
13 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2006Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2006Natural15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

41 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1998Tornado (F1)Bellevue2 hurt, $50,000A 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 1994Thunderstorm WindBellevue$50,000Thunderstorms 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 1997Thunderstorm WindBellevue$30,000Severe 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 2013Thunderstorm WindBellevue$20,000RV overturned on highway 287. No injuries reported.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBellevue$10,000An 18-wheeler was overturned on US Hwy 287 by severe thunderstorm winds.
April 1994HailBellevue$5,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBellevue$2,000Power poles were downed.
April 2026Tornado (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 2023Tornado (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 2004Flash FloodBellevue-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 1995Thunderstorm WindBellevue-Severe thunderstorm winds in Clay County reached 60 mph in Bellevue.
April 1995HailBellevue-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 1994HailBellevue-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 1994HailBellevue-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 1994Thunderstorm WindBellevue-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 1994HailBellevue-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 1994HailBellevue-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 2021HailBellevue-no account filed
April 2020HailBellevue-no account filed
April 2020HailBellevue-no account filed
April 2020HailBellevue-no account filed
May 2020HailBellevue-no account filed
May 2020HailBellevue-no account filed
May 2020HailBellevue-no account filed
May 2020HailBellevue-no account filed
May 2016HailBellevue-no account filed
April 2014HailBellevue-no account filed
April 2008HailBellevue-no account filed
April 2004HailBellevue-no account filed
April 2004HailBellevue-no account filed
April 2004HailBellevue-no account filed
April 2003HailBellevue-no account filed
April 2003HailBellevue-no account filed
May 2001HailBellevue-no account filed
October 2001HailBellevue-no account filed
May 1997HailBellevue-no account filed
April 1996HailBellevue-no account filed
April 1996HailBellevue-no account filed
May 1993HailBellevue-no account filed
May 1993HailBellevue-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindBellevue-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Vashti5.8 miles7
Buffalo Springs8.7 miles7
Dickworsham9.6 miles8
Joy11.5 miles7
Newport11.6 miles7
Bluegrove11.7 miles7
Edwards13.1 miles8
Huggins14.1 miles8

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 BellevueAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972680The 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.