Mountain View Estates, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36109. The Survey maps it on the Willow Springs quadrangle.

Mountain View Estates within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Mount Meigs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1975 USGS Mount Meigs NW quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Willow Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View Estates between 1995 and 2016, burning about 525 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	23
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
15 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20150915-001
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	188 MONROE STREET, AL
7 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	OLD POND RD, AL
3 August 1995	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Mountain View Estates: 16 producers, 1 past producer. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, REE, Kyanite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Deep South Const. Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite	Producer	Quartz
Hodson Pit	Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz
Mitylene Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, REE, Kyanite	Producer	Quartz
Excelsior Mine	Clay	Producer
Jenkins Brick Co., Inc. Pit	Clay	Producer
Cossada Ferry Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Deep South Construction Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dozier Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Froggy Bottom Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mcgee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Carol Villa	0.5 miles	13
College Grove	0.6 miles	13
Eastmont	0.7 miles	13
Bellehurst	0.8 miles	13
Gunter Grove	0.9 miles	13
Johnstown East	1.2 miles	13
Montgomery East	1.3 miles	13
Sunshine Village	1.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 142741. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.