Mountain View, California

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1932 1982

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.

• 1932 USGS Barstow quadrangle1:125000
• 1934 USGS Barstow quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Victorville quadrangle1:24000, 8 printings
• 1956 USGS Victorville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Victorville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 272 acres in total. None started naturally. 50 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Mountain View Acres
• Golden Mesa
• Mojave Heights
• The Village
• Greentree East
• Leon

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mountain View: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Granite, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 246299. 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.