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Mountain View, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Forest Park-Morrow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30354. It stands on Thames Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southwest Atlanta quadrangle.

Mountain View within Clayton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View between 1992 and 2016, burning about 178 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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
Arson/incendiarism21
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CLAYTON-001
22 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2007Smoking1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2000Misuse of fire by a minor2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CLAYTON-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mountain View: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Forest Park QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain View in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMountain View$5,000The Clayton County 911 Center reported that numerous trees were blown down across the county. Power lines were downed on Highway 85 in Riverdale, causing the road to be shut down.

Every storm recorded in Clayton 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
Maxwelton0.3 miles23
Coxs Crossing0.3 miles23
Oak Forest0.5 miles23
Tara Heights1.0 miles21
Mountain View Plaza1.5 miles21
Manor Ridge Park1.7 miles21
Sweetbriar1.7 miles21
Forest Park1.8 miles21

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 Q6925294The 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 319083. 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.