Bellemont, Arizona
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Bellemont is an unincorporated community in Coconino County
Coconino County, Arizona
-2010:Whereas according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau:*61.7% White*1.2% Black*27.3% Native American*1.4% Asian*0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander*3.1% Two or more races*5.2% Other races*13.5% Hispanic or Latino -2000:...

, Arizona
Arizona
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, United States
United States
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. Bellemont is located along Interstate 40
Interstate 40
Interstate 40 is the third-longest major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States, after I-90 and I-80. Its western end is at Interstate 15 in Barstow, California; its eastern end is at a concurrency of U.S. Route 117 and North Carolina Highway 132 in Wilmington, North Carolina...

 11 miles (17.7 km) west-northwest of Flagstaff
Flagstaff, Arizona
Flagstaff is a city located in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In 2010, the city's population was 65,870. The population of the Metropolitan Statistical Area was at 134,421 in 2010. It is the county seat of Coconino County...

. Bellemont has a ZIP Code
ZIP Code
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 of 86015; in 2000, the population of the 86015 ZCTA
ZIP Code Tabulation Area
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 was 231.

In October 2010 Bellement was struck by a tornado
Tornado
A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as a twister or a cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology in a wider...

. The tornado damaged 15 homes in the community, to the point "that they were uninhabitable", resulting in evacuation of about 30 people. A train and 30 recreational vehicle
Recreational vehicle
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s were damaged, but "No serious injuries or deaths were reported."

Bellemont is the location of the Flagstaff field office of the National Weather Service
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