Mount View, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Northeast Comanche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73541. The Survey maps it on the Fletcher quadrangle.

Mount View within Comanche County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1949 USGS Cement quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Lawton quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Cement quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Fletcher quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Lawton quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Fletcher quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

41 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Mount View between 2000 and 2020, burning about 3,579 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Debris and open burning	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	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
5 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	395 acres	Anadarko Agency	LITTLE WASHITA
30 September 2000	Smoking	681 acres	Anadarko Agency	CYRIL
29 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Anadarko Agency	LUMPIE
1 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	11 acres	Anadarko Agency	STANTON
25 August 2009	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Anadarko Agency	KING RD.
20 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43 acres	Anadarko Agency	BIRDWELL
17 August 2015	Debris and open burning	300 acres	Anadarko Agency	WATTS MILE FIRE
4 July 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Anadarko Agency	NINE MILE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comanche 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 Mount View: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
	Texas Gypsum Pit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer

Every working recorded in Comanche 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sterling	3.2 miles	13
Fletcher	4.0 miles	13
Elgin	6.2 miles	14
Lake Ellsworth Addition	8.2 miles	14
Cove Acres	8.8 miles	14
Edgewater Park	10.9 miles	11
Green Meadow Acres	11.0 miles	11
Lakeside Village	11.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100650. 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.