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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.

Belmont within Gonzales County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

14 since 2000

Regional 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined175 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 103
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHNSON
6 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY LINE
17 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service80&466
15 July 2009Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEESIVE HWY80
11 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGARCIAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gonzales County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2024HailBelmont-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Belmont.
January 2024HailBelmont-A thunderstorm produced 2.25 inch diameter hail in Belmont.
March 2018HailBelmont-A thunderstorm produced hail ranging from quarter to golf ball size in Belmont.
July 2007Flash FloodBelmont-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 2002HailBelmont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gonzales 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
Smithville4.0 miles14
Saint James5.2 miles14
Monthalia5.5 miles11
Oak Forest5.5 miles11
Ottine7.4 miles14
Bebe7.9 miles10
Leesville8.7 miles10
Slayden8.7 miles14

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 BelmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4884306The 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.