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Valley View, Colorado

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Pueblo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81023. It lies near Sugarloaf Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Beulah quadrangle.

Valley View within Pueblo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

116 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Valley View between 1995 and 2020, burning about 5,340 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Natural31
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeulah Valley Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeulah Valley Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeulah Valley Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
3 September 1995Natural5.0 acresRoyal Gorge Field OfficeS. HOLBERT
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeulah Valley Volunteer Fire DepartmentN/A
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeulah Valley Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
4 August 1996Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestST. CHUCK
27 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBeulah Valley Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pueblo County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Valley View: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
BeulahSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
BeulahStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownMarble, DimensionOccurrenceMetamorphic
UnknownStone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, DimensionUnknown
Beulah Strip PitClayProducer
Fox No 1 PitClayProducer
Siloam Clay MineClayProducer
UnknownClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Pueblo 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
Beulah Valley0.6 miles22
Beulah0.7 miles22
Cedar Grove2.1 miles22
Goodpasture3.2 miles22
Burnt Mill9.6 miles18
Cuerna Verde Park10.1 miles23
Bronquist10.3 miles20
Rye10.3 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 193826. 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.