Belmont, Texas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Harwood-Ottine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78629. It stands on Burroughs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Belmont quadrangle. It stands 361 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1911 USGS San Marcos quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1919 USGS San Marcos quadrangle1:125000
- 1925 USGS San Marcos 4-c quadrangle1:48000
- 1929 USGS Luling quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Belmont between 2000 and 2017, burning about 259 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 175 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 103 |
| 2 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JOHNSON |
| 6 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY LINE |
| 17 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 80&466 |
| 15 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LEESIVE HWY80 |
| 11 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GARCIAS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belmont in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 4 hail, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2024 | Hail | Belmont | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Belmont. |
| January 2024 | Hail | Belmont | - | A thunderstorm produced 2.25 inch diameter hail in Belmont. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Belmont | - | A thunderstorm produced hail ranging from quarter to golf ball size in Belmont. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Belmont | - | A cluster of thunderstorms over Fayette, Gonzales, Karnes, DeWitt, and Lavaca Counties produced general 1 to 2 inch rainfall with up to 4 inches near Belmont. US80 and FM2091 were closed due to flash flooding. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Belmont | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smithville | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Saint James | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Monthalia | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Oak Forest | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Ottine | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Bebe | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Leesville | 8.7 miles | 10 | |
| Slayden | 8.7 miles | 14 |
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 Belmont | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4884306 | 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 1330391. 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.







