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View, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Declo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83318. The Survey maps it on the View quadrangle. It stands 4,232 feet above sea level.

View within Cassia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of View between 1992 and 2015, burning about 10,949 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 August 1998Natural323 acresTwin Falls DistrictANTELOPHIL
4 August 2015Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictPINE KNOB
4 August 2002Natural10,422 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHORSEBUTTE
2 August 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSawtooth National ForestHITCHRACK
16 August 2007Natural1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictDAYLEY CANYON
7 July 2011Railroad operations and maintenance12 acresIdaho Falls DistrictPINE KNOB
27 June 2003Debris and open burning125 acresIdaho Falls DistrictDECLO
28 March 1994Debris and open burning66 acresTwin Falls DistrictEFK FISHCR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cassia County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of View: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Marble, Dimension. 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
Marble QuarryMarble, Dimension, LeadPast ProducerMetamorphic
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed LocationLeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cassia County

Storms near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names View in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2022: 4 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
October 2019Thunderstorm WindView$40,000A very large tree over 3 feet in diameter was uprooted and crashed into a residence on E 400 S just west of S 350 E. Roof and the back half of residence were destroyed. A second large tree next to the residence also uprooted. Large trees were snapped off approximately half way up along E 400 S near S 250 E. 2 other large trees 2-3 feet in diameter uprooted half way in between S 350 E and S 250 E and power pole was snapped in half.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindView-A 58 mph wind gust measured at private weather station at intersection of E 300 S and S 450 E.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindView-Two power poles snapped off near their bases on S Pole Line Rd just north of W 800 S.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindView-A private weather station near E 600 S and S 650 E measured a 62 mph wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Cassia 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
Springdale4.5 miles10
Unity5.3 miles10
Hazel (historical)5.5 miles9
Declo5.9 miles10
Albion6.8 miles8
Beetville7.6 miles9
Ruby7.6 miles9
Pella7.7 miles9

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 ViewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q121221373The 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 398305. 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.