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Valley View, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ore City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75645. The Survey maps it on the Glenwood quadrangle.

Valley View within Upshur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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

365 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 365 fires within 5 miles of Valley View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,492 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning268
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Natural17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2

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 2012Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6237
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 231
7 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-0318
7 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6176
7 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1999Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur 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
Graceton2.2 miles12
Stamps2.4 miles12
Sand Hill2.8 miles12
Indian Rock3.3 miles12
Diana4.1 miles12
Snow Hill4.1 miles12
Bethel4.2 miles12
Old Diana4.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034816. 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.