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Mountain View, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Asotin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99401. It lies near Corral Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Mountain View quadrangle.

Mountain View within Asotin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View between 1992 and 2019, burning about 630 acres in total. 37 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
Natural37
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2012Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBMIDC INC 857 - COUGAR CONFL
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National ForestDONUT HOLE
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
11 September 1994Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National Forestnot named
1 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUmatilla National ForestWENATCHEE CREEK
8 August 2016Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHEWITT SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Asotin County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mountain View: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Fleser PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Asotin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain View in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2017Flash FloodMountain View$1,500,000A Flash Flood closed Highway 129 near where Rattlesnake Creek meets the Grande Ronde River. The road was closed for three hours and then opened up to one lane of traffic.
February 2017Flash FloodMountain View$2,000Flooding occurred along Dreamz Road as a flood wave passed from a disintegrating ice jam farther upstream. Four feet of water was reported in the yard of a home and a small shed was floated and carried by the flood wave.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMountain View-Trained spotter estimated thunderstorm winds of 55 to 60 mph in Anatone near the intersection of Highway 129 and Pine Street. Tree limbs branches were down across town. Hail to the size of pennies was also observed. Larger hail likely accompanied the storms prior to moving into Anatone.
July 2012HailMountain View-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Asotin 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
Hanson Ferry1.0 miles12
Grouse4.8 miles12
Anatone12.7 miles12
Theon (historical)15.1 miles10
Cloverland15.2 miles12
Craige17.9 miles10
Zindel (historical)18.8 miles10
Rogersburg19.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511170. 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.