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River Ridge, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Vredenburgh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36481. The Survey maps it on the Natchez quadrangle. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

River Ridge within Monroe 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

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of River Ridge between 1994 and 2015, burning about 878 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Natural560 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2000Natural50 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 July 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO.RD.50, AL
1 May 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 April 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names River Ridge in 1 storm report in 2010: 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindRiver Ridge$10,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed multiple power lines.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Natchez2.9 miles7
Keith3.6 miles7
Scotland3.9 miles7
Kalem5.2 miles9
Franklin5.2 miles8
Beatrice5.9 miles9
Tunnel Springs6.3 miles9
Buena Vista6.5 miles7

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 River RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15051807The 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 156971. 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.