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Valley View, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Electra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76367. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mankins quadrangle. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Valley View within Wichita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

99 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Valley View between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,527 acres in total. None 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/undetermined47
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning17
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Smoking2

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
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE RD FIRE
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest Service08/09/2020A
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOOKS FIRE
31 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePHILLIPS
29 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceS367/368
28 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREEVES ROAD
24 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN GREEN
19 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRADLEY RANCH ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wichita County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley View in 1 storm report in 1999: 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
March 1999HailValley View-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wichita 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
Kamay2.6 miles7
Kadane Corner4.1 miles7
Iowa Park7.4 miles11
Allendale9.0 miles10
Fowlkes9.1 miles10
Pleasant Valley10.3 miles9
Electra13.6 miles12
Bacon14.2 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Valley ViewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7912260The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1370560. 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.

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.