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Bellair Township, Appanoose County, Iowa

township in Appanoose County, Iowa

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ2218219 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bellair Township is one of eighteen townships in Appanoose County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 554.

Geography

Bellair Township covers an area of 24.01 square miles (62.2 km2) and contains one settlement, Numa. According to the USGS, it contains five cemeteries: Baker, County Farm, Felkner, Livengood and Numa.

Editorial summary

“Bellair Township, Appanoose County, Iowa” enters the record as township in Appanoose County, Iowa. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bellair, Township and Appanoose can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bellair, Township and Appanoose.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Bellair Township, Appanoose County, Iowa” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bellair, Township and Appanoose provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2218219. Authority coordinates are 40.724, -92.941. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Bellair Township, Appanoose County, Iowa”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bellair Township, Appanoose County, Iowa primary sources, Bellair Township, Appanoose County, Iowa archive and Bellair research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Bellair Township, Appanoose County, Iowa”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Bellair Township, Appanoose County, Iowa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.