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Bellville, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bellville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77418. The Survey maps it on the Bellville quadrangle. 4,206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 292 feet above sea level.

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Bellville within Austin County

On record in Bellville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bellville grew from 4,097 to 4,206 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
20104,097
20204,206+109 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

15 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Bellville between 2008 and 2011, burning about 63 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ FISHER RD
10 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ REINCKE
27 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ HWY 36 SOUTH
11 July 2009Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ CLENS
30 May 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE / LESCHPER
20 May 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH HOLLAND
31 March 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ SHELL
5 February 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ LESCHPER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Storms near this place

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellville in 46 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 19 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 funnel cloud. 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
June 2024Tornado (EF1)Bellville$300,000This tornado touched down northwest of Bellville near SH 36 then tracked along and across Koy Road. The path then crossed SH 159 near Koy Road. Numerous hardwood trees were snapped or uprooted . There was damage to one business where the metal roof was removed. At least two homes sustained damage from high winds, tree and debris impacts.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindBellville$50,000Power lines down and a semi-tractor trailer overturned on Highway 159.
May 1993HailBellville$50,000The Austin County Sheriff Department reported golf ball-size hail in Bellville.
April 2004HailBellville$30,000Golfball-size hail in town of Bellville.
March 2013HailBellville$25,000Golf ball size hail was reported at the Sheriff's office. There were also reports of roof and window damage across Bellville.
November 2000HailBellville$25,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindBellville$15,000Trees down along FM 949.
November 2000Tornado (F0)Bellville$15,000Damage to roof of barn.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindBellville$15,000Trees down.
June 2008HailBellville$13,000Golf ball size hail was observed in Bellville.
October 2005Thunderstorm WindBellville$13,000Trees down in and around Bellville.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindBellville$10,000A tree was downed and there was a barn that was heavily damaged near the intersection of Mill Creek Road and Kuykendall Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBellville$10,000Trees were downed and metal roofs were blown off.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindBellville$10,000Tree down on road.
May 1999HailBellville$10,000Dime-sized hail in Piney Creek.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindBellville$10,000Wind damage to several barns and businesses.
May 2000HailBellville$10,000no account filed
May 1997HailBellville$10,000no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindBellville$5,000Powerlines blown down
October 1997Tornado (F0)Bellville$5,000Trees blown down.
May 1993HailBellville$5,000The Austin Count sheriff Department reported quarter-size hail in Bellville.
February 2001HailBellville$5,000no account filed
September 1996HailBellville$5,000no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindBellville$5,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBellville$3,000A severe thunderstorm downed power lines in Bellville.
March 2008HailBellville$2,500A rapidly developing severe thunderstorm produced penny-sized hail.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBellville$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindBellville$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree across a road in Bellville near Highway 36.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindBellville$2,000Sheriff's office reported trees down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBellville$2,000Hurricane fence damaged and trampoline blown 200 yards downwind.
September 2001HailBellville$2,000no account filed
March 2024HailBellville-A member of the public observed golf ball-sized hail in Bellville.
March 2024HailBellville-A member of the public reported tennis ball-sized hail in Bellville.
March 2024HailBellville-An mPING user reported golf ball-sized hail in Bellville.
May 2021Flash FloodBellville-CR 159 at East Mill Creek was impassable due to floodwaters covering the roadway.
May 2016HailBellville-Penny size hail reported near the intersection of Highway 159 East and FM 1456.
March 2013HailBellville-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported by a CoCoRaHS observer.
May 2013HailBellville-A severe thunderstorm produced nickel to quarter sized hail.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindBellville-Trees blown down across county.
March 2006Funnel CloudBellville-Sighted on Highway 36.
April 2004Funnel CloudBellville-Funnel cloud sighted in Bellville.
November 2004Flash FloodBellville-Flooding on Highway 36 in Bellville.
November 2004Flash FloodBellville-Several roads under water near Bellville.
October 2004Funnel CloudBellville-Sighted on Hwy 159 E between Bellville and the Waller County line, or between Oil Field Road and Walton Road.
March 1995Thunderstorm WindBellville-Large tree limbs downed near Bellville.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindBellville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Austin 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
Millheim5.4 miles11
Burleigh6.0 miles10
Buckhorn6.8 miles8
Peters7.3 miles11
Kenney7.7 miles10
Raccoon Bend7.8 miles8
Nelsonville8.0 miles10
New Bremen8.0 miles10

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 BellvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q669178The 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 1372492. 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.