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Mountain View Ranches, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86004. It lies near Wildcat Canyon.

Mountain View Ranches within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

568 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 568 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View Ranches between 1992 and 2020, burning about 708 acres in total. 225 started naturally. 15 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
Natural225
Recreation and ceremony157
Missing data/not specified/undetermined125
Smoking15
Arson/incendiarism15
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning7
Railroad operations and maintenance7

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 1997Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestBOTTOMLESS
8 September 1996Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestWILD
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northern DistrictTURKEY
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
6 September 2009Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestSUN BEAM
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 September 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresCoconino National ForestRANCH
5 September 2009Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestSTRIKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Mountain View Ranches: 9 past producers, 8 unknowns, 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Pumice, Volcanic Materials, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Red Hill PitPerliteProducer
Wildcat Hill PitVolcanic Materials, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCinders
Winona No. 1Limestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
Baker PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders
Darling Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsProducer
Flagstaff East No. 5 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders
Red Hill PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders
Sheep HillVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders
Sheep PitVolcanic MaterialsProducerCinders

Every working recorded in Coconino 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
Cosnino2.1 miles22
Winona4.5 miles22
Elden Pueblo4.6 miles31
Darling5.0 miles22
East Flagstaff7.2 miles31
Cogdill Center9.3 miles30
Flagstaff9.4 miles30
Angell9.8 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2805222. 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.