Riverside, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Franks Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72335. The Survey maps it on the Dansby quadrangle.

Riverside within St. Francis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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.

1939 USGS Park Place quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Park Place quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Dansby quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Park Place quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1963 USGS Park Place quadrangle1:62500
1984 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1997 and 2020, burning about 577 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1

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
27 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 June 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 June 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 April 2001	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 April 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francis County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	M Smith Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Francis 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wyles (historical)	2.3 miles	20
Lakeside	2.4 miles	18
Kingsley Crossing	2.7 miles	18
Burnt Cane Crossing	3.0 miles	18
Tuni	3.1 miles	20
Tuttleton	3.2 miles	20
Burnt Cane	3.3 miles	14
Widener	3.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 82945. 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.