Honeybees can go up to 6 miles afield for food, but it’s not likely that all the bees in your yard are from hives a mile and a half away. Even in suburban areas there will be wild hives in places no one will ever see.
We had a neighbor who wanted to install a hive just a few houses down from us (we live in the near suburbs of a big city). There was already a fair population of bees in our neighborhood, and some people on our block were up in arms, thinking that we would be swarmed with the 40,000 bees from this new hive. A months-long battle in the city council ensued to try to stop the installation of the hive, but that effort failed (I supported the new hive). The hive went in, and lo and behold, no one, even neighbors saw any increase in the number of bees in their yards.
Because they range so far, their numbers are diluted tremendously over a huge area. All this to tell you that you may be seeing a few bees from those hives, but most are probably coming from many other sources as well.