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Mountain View, Wyoming

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Casper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82604. The Survey maps it on the Goose Egg quadrangle. 67 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,200 feet above sea level.

Mountain View within Natrona County

Population over time

2 figures

Mountain View fell from 96 to 67 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201096
202067-29 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Mountain View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,745 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined98
Natural23
Equipment and vehicle use13
Fireworks11
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism3
Firearms and explosives use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNatrona CountyPOWERLINE
4 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
30 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use28 acresNatrona CountyPOWER LINE
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCasper Field OfficeCY FIRE
23 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
2 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNatrona CountyNA
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNatrona CountyIMIGRANT TRAIL FIRE
18 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNatrona County108 7TH AVE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Natrona County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Mountain View: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite, Clay. 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
Midwest-Thoeming & WakemClayProducer
Benton Clay Co MillBentoniteProducer
Boels-Rimrock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Casper Concrete Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hidebrand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kaycee Clay MineBentoniteProducer
Kaycee MineBentoniteProducer

Every working recorded in Natrona County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain View in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2009: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2009Flash FloodMountain View1 hurt, $5,000,000A vicious thunderstorm struck the city of Casper between about 1715 and 1800MST at the start of the July 4th holiday weekend. Extreme rainfall rates falling on the urbanized landscape produced flash flooding throughout Casper, with the most extensive inundation centered around the intersection of Poplar and Collins streets.||Nearly one inch of rain fell in 21 minutes at the Natrona County International Airport northwest of the city. A precipitation gauge along the North Platte River in Casper reported 1.79 inches of rain in 30 minutes. Final tallies around town showed rainfall from around one inch up to a high of about 2.25 inches occurred within about a 35 minute time frame.||Several streets, including Poplar and McKinley were reported to be rivers carrying rocks and other debris toward downtown Casper. Reports indicated one to three feet of water was present on some city streets. The flash flooding floated several cars and sent storm drains shooting wildly into the air. One storm drain cover injured an individual as the surging water displaced it. Emergency management estimated anywhere from 800 to 1000 structures, mainly homes, were impacted by the flooding.||In addition to hundreds of impacted homes, many well known locations also sustained damage, including the Nicolaysen Art Museum, Wyoming Medical Center, Central Wyoming Fairgrounds, Three Crowns Golf Course, and several city school buildings. Major damage also occurred at Casper College where five buildings, including the gymnasium and theater, were significantly impacted. Retaining wall bricks and landscape gravel were washed from a hillside at the college and cascaded to neighboring residences and streets below. The Hall of Justice on North David Street also sustained significant damage when water poured through a door into an underground garage. The building's elevator shafts and the ceilings in several sheriff's offices were also damaged.
September 2009HailMountain View-Hail up to quarter size was reported by a trained spotter in Mills.
September 2009HailMountain View-Hail the size of nickels fell in Mills.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMountain View-A television meteorologist reported gusts to 70 mph and blowing dust.

Every storm recorded in Natrona 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
Midwest Heights1.4 miles11
Mills1.5 miles11
Paradise Valley2.5 miles11
Vista West2.6 miles11
Hartrandt3.2 miles11
Air Base Acres3.4 miles11
Red Buttes Village3.6 miles11
Richardson Acres3.9 miles11

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 Mountain ViewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3866480The 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 1591811. 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.