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Mountain View, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Northeast Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80212. The Survey maps it on the Arvada quadrangle. 541 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,384 feet above sea level.

Mountain View within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Mountain View grew from 507 to 541 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
2010507
2020541+34 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

1,699 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,699 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 226 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 38 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/undetermined1454
Smoking50
Equipment and vehicle use43
Arson/incendiarism38
Recreation and ceremony32
Debris and open burning24
Fireworks21
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes1

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 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersDENVER
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersARVADA
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 51 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Mountain View: 31 past producers, 8 producers, 6 occurrences, 5 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay, Uranium. 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
Allied Chemical CorpSulfurProducer
Rodger Steele ClaimUraniumProspect
Denver Brick & Pipe Co.ClayProducer
Lakewood PlantClayProducer
Strainland MineClayProducer
Cooley Gravel Co. PitsSand and Gravel, Construction, GoldPast Producer1951, 1964
Gordon PitSand and Gravel, Construction, GoldPast ProducerGold, Sand and Gravel
Swadley PlacersGoldPast Producer1858, 1859
Youngfield PitSand and Gravel, Construction, GoldPast Producer1979
Asphalt Paving Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain View in 2 storm reports in 2010: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010HailMountain View-no account filed
June 2010HailMountain View-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Lakeside0.2 miles24
Highland Gardens0.6 miles24
Lakeview1.2 miles24
Olinger Gardens1.2 miles24
Wheat Ridge1.3 miles24
Edgewater1.5 miles24
Hillcrest Heights1.6 miles24
Columbine Acres1.7 miles24

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 Q2303213The 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 181689. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.