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Mountain View, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bellmont town. It lies in ZIP code area 12969. It stands on Barnes Brook. The Survey maps it on the Owls Head quadrangle.

Mountain View within Franklin County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mountain View, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mountain View, surveyed 1906

On record in Mountain View

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

23 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View between 1999 and 2013, burning about 22 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersOLD INDIAN CAMP
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2007Natural1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Mountain View: 4 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Briggs ProspectIronOccurrenceReplacement
Briggs ProspectIronProspect
Ore Bed ProspectIronOccurrenceReplacement
Orebed ProspectIronProspect
Owl's Head MineIronPast ProducerReplacement
Owls Head MineIronProspect
Studley Hill Property DepositIronProspect

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Bryants Mill1.6 miles17
Owls Head2.7 miles18
Porcaville2.9 miles18
Wolf Pond5.3 miles17
Chasm Falls5.7 miles14
Duane Center7.3 miles16
Teboville9.1 miles14
Whippleville9.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 957965. 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.