Welcome to Bellegarde ...

Bellegarde is located in Pottawatomie County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Bellegarde, you might consider that their post office opened in 1872.

Time Zone: Bellegarde lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Bellegarde: 785

Communities Also Named Bellegarde ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Bellegarde - it's located in Saskatchewan.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Bellegarde.

Adding Bellegarde to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Bellegarde in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Bellegarde was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Bellegarde post office opened in 1872.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Bellegarde.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Kansas' counties, including Pottawatomie, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/