The area is defined by the limits of the northern and western county line, bordered by the significant 1800s land grants of Eliza Dewitt, Ira Nash, Samuel Robbins and Thomas Decrew.

[12] The Gonzales County Sheriff's Office controls the emergency and municipal radio-communications of the local area, and manages its proposed future 300-ft radio tower.

[4] The area directly connects to the county seats of Seguin and Gonzales through Capote Road (FM 466), as well as served by the bridges and infrastructure of the nearby Guadalupe River.

North of its Lake Gonzales, it is bordered to the east by the disconnected railway towns of "Saint James" and "Smithville," alongside the western boundary of FM 2091 in Ottine.

[14] Initial public record of 1893 shows Belmont's place in Gonzales County as an area of households significantly supported by African-American labor, and gun fighting within classical family feuds.

Her original DeWitt Colony land grant is the oldest established tract completely within Belmont, preceding the Texan Revolution.

In partnership with Charles Erasmus Littlefield in 1871, Fleming purchased land on the Guadalupe River south bank in Belmont.

Saint James is a former settlement, of frontier railway town legacy, that defines the northeastern boundary of the Belmont area; it is located on Gonzales County Road 260 intersecting with FM 2091.