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Mountain View, Colorado

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Fort Collins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80521. The Survey maps it on the Horsetooth Reservoir quadrangle.

Mountain View within Larimer County

On record in Mountain View

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 31 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

457 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 457 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View between 2003 and 2020, burning about 2,090 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined386
Smoking23
Equipment and vehicle use22
Natural9
Debris and open burning6
Fireworks6
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
27 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersLAPORTE
23 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
22 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer 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: 15 producers, 6 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
ChallengerTungstenProducer
Graphite Nos 1 To 7GraphiteProducer
UnknownStoneOccurrence
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownClayOccurrenceSedimentary
Unnamed MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Unnamed PitClayProducer
Boettcher Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Colo Lien CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
State LeaseStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Larimer County

Storms near this place

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain View in 13 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2014Flash FloodMountain View$10,000Heavy rain, up to 2 inches in 30 minutes, and torrential hail caused localized flash flooding in the vicinity of State Highway 287 and Harmony Road.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMountain View-Strong thunderstorm winds snapped numerous tree branches.
June 2014HailMountain View-no account filed
June 2013HailMountain View-no account filed
June 2011HailMountain View-no account filed
June 2009HailMountain View-no account filed
June 2009HailMountain View-no account filed
June 2009HailMountain View-no account filed
June 2009HailMountain View-no account filed
July 2009HailMountain View-no account filed
June 2009HailMountain View-no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindMountain View-no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindMountain View-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larimer 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
Laporte2.4 miles28
Fort Collins2.4 miles29
Bellvue3.2 miles28
Buckingham3.3 miles29
Drakes3.7 miles29
Andersonville3.8 miles29
Kenyon Corner4.4 miles29
Omega4.5 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 202461. 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.