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.
Then and now
1896 to 1983The 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.


Compare 1896 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresMountain 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,372 | |
| 2020 | 2,622 | +250 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
17 surveys from 34 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Carquinez Strait quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Karquines quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Carquinez quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1901 USGS Karquines quadrangle1:62500
- 1902 USGS Napa quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1940 USGS Carquinez Strait quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Carquinez quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Port Chicago quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Port Chicago quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Vine Hill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Port Chicago quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Napa quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
408 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 173 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 69 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 65 |
| Smoking | 48 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | ALHAMBRA VALLEY RD BRION |
| 9 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | FOUR |
| 7 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 7 September 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 6 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 18 acres | Santa Clara Unit | BRICKYARD |
| 6 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Location | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Main Mine & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Martinez | Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Mcnears | Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Port Costa Shale Quarrys | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Christen | Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Christen | Stone | Prospect | ||
| Martinez | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Mcnears | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Port Costa Clay Products Co. | Stone | Occurrence |
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.
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 View | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q990179 | The 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.
















