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Mountain View, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Nucla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81424. The Survey maps it on the Big Bucktail Creek quadrangle.

Mountain View within Montrose County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,011 acres in total. 143 started naturally. None was 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
Natural143
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
8 September 2003Natural4.5 acresSouthwest District, MontroseCOAL CYN
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontrosePINTO
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseKELLEY
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseWALKER
30 September 2017Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseCHOP
3 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseNAVAJO MINE
3 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseDITCH
29 September 2017Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseROLLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montrose County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Mountain View: 6 past producers, 3 unknowns, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Radium, Uranium, Vanadium. 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
Farmer BoyRadium, Uranium, VanadiumPast Producer
Oro (Naturita) Placer DistrictGold, SilverPast Producer1883, 1963
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Montrose County Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
AkersGoldOccurrence
CottonwoodGoldPast Producer
GouldingGoldOccurrence
HobbsGoldOccurrence
LauerGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Montrose 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
Nucla4.2 miles21
Piñon5.2 miles15
Naturita7.5 miles19
Vancorum7.8 miles19
East Vancorum8.0 miles19
West Vancorum8.2 miles19
Houser Cow Camp9.6 miles16
Redvale9.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 185900. 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.