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View, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Merkel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79606. The Survey maps it on the View quadrangle.

View within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

190 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of View between 2003 and 2020, burning about 2,316 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined68
Debris and open burning47
Equipment and vehicle use32
Power generation/transmission/distribution18
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCATTLE FEEDERS
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRACTOR FIRE
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service421 MCGHEE ROAD
27 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 707 @ DRUMMOND RD
26 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor 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 View: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Whites Mines Buzzard Mtn View QyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names View in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 16 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
August 2007Flash FloodView$500,000Serious flash flooding was occurring along Elm Creek near Highway 277 and 606 where two houses were washed into the creek.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindView$50,000no account filed
June 2002HailView$20,000A storm spotter reported damage to his home and several of his vehicles. This damage was caused by baseball size hail.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindView$10,000A barn was heavily damaged by high winds.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindView$5,000Numerous trees downed by winds estimated as high as 70 mph.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindView$5,000High winds caused roof damage.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindView$500Large tree limbs downed by high winds during a thunderstorm.
May 2022HailView-Law Enforcement reported golf ball size hail in View.
May 2017HailView-A National Weather Service Cooperative Observer reported quarter size hail mixed with lots of nickel size hail about 8 miles southwest of View.
May 2016HailView-The public reported ping pong ball size hail in View.
June 2013HailView-The public reported window screens shredded by large hail.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindView-A trained spotter reported several large six inch diameter by twenty foot pecan tree limbs were snapped.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindView-The public reported a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
October 2012Thunderstorm WindView-Several power poles were knocked down in the View area where U.S. Highway 277 intersects County Road 209 and Farm to Market Road 1235.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindView-A fire chief in View, reported several power poles down and a metal roof blown off of a residence. He also reported that Buffalo Gap had power poles down.
May 2008HailView-Quarter size hail was reported along US-277 near View.
September 1999Flash FloodView-Rainfall totals of 3 to 4 inches caused street flooding in the community of View in central Taylor County.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindView-no account filed
April 2015HailView-no account filed
April 2011HailView-no account filed
April 2011HailView-no account filed
May 2008HailView-no account filed
June 2006HailView-no account filed
April 2002HailView-no account filed
April 2002HailView-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindView-no account filed
March 2002HailView-no account filed
April 2000HailView-no account filed
April 1997HailView-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Caps2.9 miles15
Cozart5.1 miles15
Buffalo Gap5.3 miles15
Mount Pleasant5.9 miles15
Wylie6.2 miles15
Tye7.9 miles18
Tuscola10.3 miles12
Blair10.8 miles14

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 ViewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7928732The 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 1349275. 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.