Belton, Texas Belton, Texas Downtown Belton near Bell County Courthouse Downtown Belton near Bell County Courthouse Location of Belton, Texas Location of Belton, Texas Belton Lake The City of Belton -- governmental center of county of Bell County, Texas, United States -- is positioned in Central Texas.

The populace was 20,547 in 2015 as stated to a US Enumeration Estimate. Belton is positioned in the center of the Killeen Temple Fort Hood urbane area.

Belton is positioned near the center of Bell County at 31 3 32 N 97 27 48 W (31.058904, -97.463382). It is bordered to the northeast by the Leon River, athwart which is the town/city of Temple.

Route 190 leads west from Belton 16 miles (26 km) to Killeen.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 20.0 square miles (51.7 km2), of which 18.9 square miles (49.0 km2) is territory and 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), or 5.08%, is water. In 1868, Martha Mc - Whirter, a prominent figure in Belton's nonsectarian Union Sunday School, created the only Texas women's communes of the 1800s.

Cochran was humiliated and forced to back down, and remained a mortal enemy of Mc - Whirter from that moment on, and forced the commune to flee to Maryland in 1899 when he refused to sell dry goods to the commune's hotel, Central Hotel. The 1880s marked the town's brightest age, with the building of the courthouse, Baylor Female College buildings, and a "railroad war" in which, by 1881, Belton was bypassed by the barns which assembled Temple as the small-town junction and depot town.

Belton is served by the following Belton Independent School District schools: Belton High School, serves 9th through 12th undertaking (There is a second building that is only 9th undertaking students referred to as "The Nine") Belton New Tech High School at Waskow, serves 9th through 12th undertaking Lake Belton Middle School, serves 6th through 8th undertaking South Belton Middle School, serves 6th through 8th undertaking North Belton Middle School, serves 6th through 8th undertaking High Point Elementary, serves kindergarten through 5th undertaking Leon Heights Elementary, serves kindergarten through 5th undertaking Pirtle Elementary, serves kindergarten through 5th undertaking Miller Heights Elementary, serves kindergarten through 5th undertaking Sparta Elementary, serves kindergarten through 5th undertaking Belton Early Childhood School, serves pre-school students Belton is also home to the University of Mary Hardin Baylor, a private college affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas. As of 2015, UMHB has an enrollment of 3,898. The Bell County Expo Center is positioned in Belton and is the venue for many concerts, sporting affairs, and various ceremonies.

For recreation, Belton has two primary lakes: Belton Lake on the Leon River, and Stillhouse Hollow Lake on the Lampasas River.

He graduated from Belton High School in 1985.

Melot USN (1913-1988) was born and raised in Belton, graduating from Belton HS and the University of Texas.

Roy Smythe, the global Chief Medical Officer for Heallthcare Informatics for Philips, interval up in Belton, and graduated from Belton High School in 1978.

General Walton Walker, the 8th Army Commander killed in action in the Korean War, was born in Belton on December 3, 1889.

Actor Rudy Youngblood of Mel Gibson's film Apocalypto graduated from Belton High School.

Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson, the first female Governor of Texas interval up in Belton.

Belton is home of the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame, homed in the Bell County Expo Center.

"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Belton city, Texas".

Texas State Historical Association - Belton Woman's Commonwealth A history of Belton Belton, Texas - Yettie Polk Park City of Belton official website The Belton Journal, Texas's earliest continuously presented weekly journal (since 1866) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Belton, Texas.

Municipalities and communities of Bell County, Texas, United States