THE BELLEFONTE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Ohio/Kentucky Carboniferous Plateau setting.
Bellefonte city has 0.88 square miles of land in Greenup County. Its Census reference point is in Ohio/Kentucky Carboniferous Plateau, within Western Allegheny Plateau.
Rounded wooded hills and intervening valleys form an unglaciated plateau landscape. Valley floors contain much of the region's open land, contrasting with its more forested slopes.
Regional context: Western Allegheny Plateau ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Bellefonte and Greenup County
Bellefonte is associated with Greenup County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Bellefonte by land and water
The Census records <0.01 square miles of water within Bellefonte, or 0.6% of its total area. It is 2.3 percentage points lower than the 2.8% recorded for Greenup County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bellefonte city has 23.1% of the land area of nearby Russell city (3.81 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

