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Mountain View, Arizona

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tucson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85641. The Survey maps it on the Vail quadrangle.

Mountain View within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

235 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 857 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined196
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural7
Smoking6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeWENTWORTH
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRincon Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
15 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeDAVIDSON CANYON
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRincon Valley Fire Districtnot named
11 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRincon Valley Fire District1501

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Mountain View: 10 past producers, 9 occurrences, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Copper, Silver, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay. 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
Andrada Marble QuarryCalcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionPast Producer
Aqua Verde MineStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
C & H Mine GroupCopper, Gold, Tungsten, Silver, MolybdenumPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Powellite, Pyrite, Scheelite
C and H Mine GroupCopper, Silver, Tungsten, GoldPast Producer
California MineCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Marble, Dimension, MolybdenumProducerMetamorphic
California MineCopper, Gold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Chief GroupLead, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Echo GroupLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
La Libre MineCopper, SilverProducer1941
Virginia Belle MineCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pima 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
New Tucson2.1 miles21
Vail3.5 miles23
Pantano5.4 miles20
Corona de Tucson5.6 miles21
Esmond7.7 miles25
Harrington Place7.7 miles24
Helvetia11.5 miles21
Civano11.6 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24522. 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.