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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.

Monteview within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

1 since 1998

Regional 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/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
13 July 1998Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictJEFFERSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

21 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMonteview$2,000Power lines reported damaged near Monteview with multiple power outages reported.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMonteview$1,000Tree downed in Monteview with a mesonet site recording a 62 mph wind gust.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMonteview-Mesonet station MON, 6 miles north of Monteview recorded a 58 mph wind gust.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMonteview-Mesonet station MON recorded 71 mph wind gust north of Monteview.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMonteview-MON mesonet site recorded 62 mph wind.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindMonteview-Monteview ARL measured a 70 mph wind gust.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMonteview-A 60 mph wind gust measured in Monteview.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMonteview-A 59 mph thunderstorm outflow wind gust measured at Monteview.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMonteview-A 69 mph wind gust at Rover mesonet site.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Monteview-A spotter witnessed a rope tornado 15 miles south southwest of Mud Lake that quickly dissipated.
August 2014Heavy RainMonteview-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 2014Tornado (EF0)Monteview-A brief tornado touched down 6 miles northwest of Monteview. Tornado occurred over open land with no damage reported.
May 2013Tornado (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 2009Thunderstorm WindMonteview-Sixty-four mph wind gust at Sand Dunes ARL FRD Mesonet site.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindMonteview-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMonteview-no account filed
April 2006Tornado (F0)Monteview-no account filed
June 2006HailMonteview-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMonteview-no account filed
June 2003HailMonteview-no account filed
September 2000HailMonteview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Level (historical)5.8 miles9
Mud Lake9.6 miles9
Terreton10.4 miles9
Camas16.9 miles9
Hamer17.8 miles10
Sage Junction20.5 miles9
Hawgood21.6 miles9
Roberts27.8 miles14

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 MonteviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6905484The 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.