Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Bellefonte, KY

Bellefonte is a home rule-class city in eastern Greenup County, Kentucky, a primarily residential suburb of Ashland within the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area.

The city takes its name from the Bellefonte Furnace, an iron furnace that operated on the site from 1826 to 1893; the name combines the French words for 'beautiful' and 'smelting.'

Hand-cut limestone blocks from the old furnace still survive as a retaining wall along Oxcart Road near the Community Presbyterian Church, which stands on the original furnace site.

The older part of the city was laid out in town lots beginning in 1918 by the Means and Russell Iron Company, on land that had been part of the several-thousand-acre Wheatley farm.

Bellefonte was first incorporated on July 3, 1951, beginning with only about 275 residents, and it grew through the second half of the 20th century.

The 2020 census counted 920 residents in Bellefonte, up from 888 at the 2010 census.

Bellefonte is home to the private Bellefonte Country Club, which has an 18-hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis courts, and a ballroom.

The city sits on a plateau on a mile-wide belt of flat land roughly 100 feet above the Ohio River valley, a filled-in channel of the ancient Teays River, which was once larger than the Ohio River itself.

Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital, just north of the city in Russell, was named for Bellefonte, and in 1979 Ashland Inc. moved its headquarters offices to a glass office complex beside the hospital before relocating to Covington in 1999.

Bellefonte has no public schools of its own and belongs to the Russell Independent School District; its Bellefonte Elementary School was closed in 1993 and later demolished.