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Mountain View, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Roswell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88203. The Survey maps it on the Roswell South quadrangle. It stands 3,629 feet above sea level.

Mountain View within Chaves County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 620 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
29 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresBitter Lake National Wildlife RefugeSQUIRREL
1 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDARBY
5 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBRASHER
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMIDWAY
26 July 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRONDO
1 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMONKSDALE
16 June 2010Natural4.0 acresCarlsbad Field OfficeCHARLIE
13 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCapitan DistrictINDEPENDENCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaves County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Mountain View: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 3 unknowns. 5 still produce. 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
Brasher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Chaves County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer1991
Chaves County Road Dept. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer1992
Chaves Cty,Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
City of Roswell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Soil
Crusher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Roswell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel
Roswell Ready Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Chaves County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain View in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
May 2021Flash FloodMountain View$250,000Two to four inches of rainfall in the Roswell area caused flash flooding on roadways and low water crossings. A high water rescue had to be performed at Washington and Jaffa Road in Roswell, but no injuries were reported. The extent of the damages are unknown and are roughly estimated for the unknown amount of businesses and vehicles inundated with flood waters.
July 2021HailMountain View-Multiple spotters in Roswell reported one inch hail from a severe thunderstorm moving northeast through the area.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMountain View-A trained spotter measured a 63 mph wind gust from strong outflow winds.

Every storm recorded in Chaves 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
South Spring Acres2.0 miles9
Fairbanks2.2 miles9
South Spring2.7 miles9
Roswell3.7 miles10
East Grand Plains4.6 miles9
Midway5.0 miles9
Chisum7.7 miles9
Berrendo (historical)7.8 miles10

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 Q14706071The 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 899807. 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.