Monteview, Idaho
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Mud Lake-Hamer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83435. The Survey maps it on the Monteview quadrangle. It stands 4,793 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Monteview quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Circular Butte quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Monteview in 1998, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 July 1998 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | JEFFERSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Monteview: 1 past producer. None of them 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 | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monteview in 21 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monteview | $2,000 | Power lines reported damaged near Monteview with multiple power outages reported. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monteview | $1,000 | Tree downed in Monteview with a mesonet site recording a 62 mph wind gust. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monteview | - | Mesonet station MON, 6 miles north of Monteview recorded a 58 mph wind gust. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monteview | - | Mesonet station MON recorded 71 mph wind gust north of Monteview. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monteview | - | MON mesonet site recorded 62 mph wind. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monteview | - | Monteview ARL measured a 70 mph wind gust. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monteview | - | A 60 mph wind gust measured in Monteview. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monteview | - | A 59 mph thunderstorm outflow wind gust measured at Monteview. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monteview | - | A 69 mph wind gust at Rover mesonet site. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Monteview | - | A spotter witnessed a rope tornado 15 miles south southwest of Mud Lake that quickly dissipated. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Monteview | - | Jefferson County was declared a natural disaster area by the USDA due to barley crop loss in August from heavy rains. Eastern Idaho lost about 64 million dollars of barley crops due to the rains with a portion of that occurring in Jefferson County. |
| May 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Monteview | - | A brief tornado touched down 6 miles northwest of Monteview. Tornado occurred over open land with no damage reported. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Monteview | - | A weak tornado was confirmed with photographs and radar signatures just southeast of Monteview between 4:10 pm MDT to 4:20 MDT. The tornado was in open fields and no damage occurred. |
| September 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monteview | - | Sixty-four mph wind gust at Sand Dunes ARL FRD Mesonet site. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monteview | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monteview | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Monteview | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Monteview | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monteview | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Monteview | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Monteview | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Level (historical) | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Mud Lake | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Terreton | 10.4 miles | 9 | |
| Camas | 16.9 miles | 9 | |
| Hamer | 17.8 miles | 10 | |
| Sage Junction | 20.5 miles | 9 | |
| Hawgood | 21.6 miles | 9 | |
| Roberts | 27.8 miles | 14 |
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 Monteview | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6905484 | 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 376172. 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.



