Bellair is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Cooper County, Missouri Cooper County is located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 17,103. Its county seat is Boonville. The county was organized December 17, 1818, and named for Sarshell Co ...

, United States. The community is on

Missouri Route 5 Missouri Route 5 is the longest state highway in Missouri and the only Missouri state highway to traverse the entire state. To the north, it continues into Iowa as Iowa Highway 5 and to the south it enters Arkansas as Arkansas Highway 5 as pa ...

, approximately ten miles south-southwest of Boonville.

History

Bellair was founded in the 1840s by T. P. Airbell, and named for him. A post office called Bellair was established in 1849, then was changed to Bell Air in 1864, and the post office closed in 1906.

References

Unincorporated communities in Cooper County, Missouri {{CooperCountyMO-geo-stub