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Mountain View, California

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Central Contra Costa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94553. It lies near Alhambra Valley. The Survey maps it on the Vine Hill quadrangle. 2,622 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Mountain View within Contra Costa County

Then and now

1896 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mountain View, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Mountain View, surveyed 1896

Compare 1896 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Mountain View grew from 2,372 to 2,622 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,372
20202,622+250 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 surveys from 34 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

408 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 408 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,030 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 65 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/undetermined173
Equipment and vehicle use69
Arson/incendiarism65
Smoking48
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Debris and open burning10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
9 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSanta Clara UnitALHAMBRA VALLEY RD BRION
9 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara UnitFOUR
7 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
7 September 2010Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresSanta Clara Unitnot named
6 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution18 acresSanta Clara UnitBRICKYARD
6 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Contra Costa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Mountain View: 7 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Unnamed LocationClayOccurrence
Main Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
MartinezStone, DimensionOccurrence
McnearsStone, DimensionOccurrence
Port Costa Shale QuarrysStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
ChristenStoneOccurrence
ChristenStoneProspect
MartinezStonePast Producer
McnearsStonePast Producer
Port Costa Clay Products Co.StoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Contra Costa 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
Vine Hill1.1 miles34
Martinez1.1 miles36
Mococo1.2 miles34
Muir1.4 miles41
Glen Frazer2.5 miles41
Maltby2.5 miles34
Ozol2.7 miles36
Avon2.8 miles34

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Mountain ViewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q990179The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1853402. 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.