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History · Belleview

Belleview’s post office opened in 1826, and 33% of its homes were built before 1940

7 places in town are on the National Register.

1826first post office
7on the National Register
33%homes built before 1940
Quick answers

How Belleview began

When was Belleview founded?

1826

The Belleview post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Grant (1869), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 308200 years
Founding year: the first Belleview post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

7 historic places in Belleview

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
7
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
11
each building in a district counts
first listed
1989
Belleview Baptist Church
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Queen Anne2
Eclectic1
Gothic Revival decorated Cottage1
Gothic Revival1
Log House1
All 7 listings

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Belleview had its own post office from 1826 to 1828. Another post office, Grant, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Belleview
1826–1828
Grant
1869–1974
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
McVille
Gone or out of use
Belleview Graded SchoolschoolGrant Post Officepost office
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Belleview
Belleview BaptistGrantRiceRice

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Questions about Belleview’s history

What year was Belleview founded?

The Belleview post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Belleview?

7 listings: 7 buildings, among them the Belleview Baptist Church (listed 1989, the first). 11 historic buildings in all.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (7), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.