Valley View, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ballinger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76821. The Survey maps it on the Herring Ranch quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Hayrick quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hayrick quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1921 USGS Quarry Creek quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Herring Ranch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Robert Lee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Valley View between 2009 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAUN FIRE |
| 5 July 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WEATHERS FIRE |
| 4 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1 MILE FIRE |
| 4 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BALLINGER LAKE FIRE |
| 15 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 158 FIRE |
| 4 May 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIGHLAND |
| 3 May 2020 | Natural | 5.2 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 262 FIRE |
| 13 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | STRUBE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Valley View: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenn Ranch-1 | Copper | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley View in 1 storm report in 1993: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1993 | Hail | Valley View | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034946. 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.







