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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Mankins quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
99 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 47 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 14 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | STATE RD FIRE |
| 9 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 08/09/2020A |
| 5 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOOKS FIRE |
| 31 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PHILLIPS |
| 29 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | S367/368 |
| 28 August 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | REEVES ROAD |
| 24 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JOHN GREEN |
| 19 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRADLEY RANCH ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1999 | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kamay | 2.6 miles | 7 | |
| Kadane Corner | 4.1 miles | 7 | |
| Iowa Park | 7.4 miles | 11 | |
| Allendale | 9.0 miles | 10 | |
| Fowlkes | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 10.3 miles | 9 | |
| Electra | 13.6 miles | 12 | |
| Bacon | 14.2 miles | 9 |
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 View | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7912260 | The 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.



