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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.

Valley View within Runnels County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

16 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
17 August 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAUN FIRE
5 July 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEATHERS FIRE
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1 MILE FIRE
4 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBALLINGER LAKE FIRE
15 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service158 FIRE
4 May 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHLAND
3 May 2020Natural5.2 acresTexas A & M Forest Service262 FIRE
13 May 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTRUBE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Runnels 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Glenn Ranch-1CopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Runnels County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1993HailValley View-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Runnels 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
Ballinger5.7 miles15
Hatchel5.7 miles13
Norton7.5 miles15
Blanton8.5 miles11
Maverick9.3 miles15
Rowena10.1 miles15
Benoit10.5 miles11
Bethel11.6 miles15

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.