Belleville is a

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and

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(CDP) in the town of Ellisburg, Jefferson County,

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, United States. The population was 226 at the 2010 census. It was an incorporated

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from 1860 to 1930.''History of Ellisburgh, NY'' - Belleville by Edgar C. Emerson, The Boston History Company, 1898
Retrieved Jun. 13, 2015."Municipal Structures"
, Office of the State Comptroller

Geography

Belleville is in southern Jefferson County, in the northern part of the town of Ellisburg. The community sits on both sides of Sandy Creek, a southwesterly-flowing direct tributary of

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. The main crossroads in the hamlet is on the north side of the creek.

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leads south to the village of Ellisburg and northeast (upstream) to

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. County Route 75 runs north and southwest from the Belleville crossroads. According to the

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, the Belleville CDP has an area of , all land.

Demographics

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