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Valley View, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hartselle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35640. It lies near Stevenson Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hartselle quadrangle.

Valley View within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

95 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Valley View between 1994 and 2020, burning about 465 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Fireworks1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180906-1
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Valley View: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Plant 4 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Morgan 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Georgia1.2 miles19
Hartselle1.7 miles19
Clemons Crossroad2.4 miles19
Oak Ridge3.0 miles19
Tanner Heights3.1 miles19
Burningtree Estates3.5 miles25
Burningtree Mountain3.7 miles25
Flint City4.2 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 128401. 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.