Pleasant View, Colorado
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Pleasant View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81331. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant View quadrangle. It stands 6,913 feet above sea level.
On record in Pleasant 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 1 record
Lowry RuinNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1956 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Pleasant View quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Dove Creek quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Pleasant View quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
32 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant View between 1994 and 2020, burning about 7,456 acres in total. 29 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | PHEASANT V |
| 8 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | ZEBRA |
| 7 August 2009 | Natural | 7,300 acres | San Juan National Forest | NARRAGUINNEP |
| 5 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | COB |
| 25 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | BRADLEY |
| 18 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | San Juan National Forest | ROCK PILE |
| 11 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | SANDSTONE CANYON |
| 11 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Mesa Verde National Park | KERNAN 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant View: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
Storms near this place
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant View in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 debris flow. 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.
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 Pleasant View | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q11205061 | 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 176857. 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.







