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Riverview, California

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Sacramento Canyon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96051. It stands on Campbell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lamoine quadrangle.

Riverview within Shasta County

Then and now

1890 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Riverview, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Riverview, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 29 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

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Riverview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72,000 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 11 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
Equipment and vehicle use59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Natural29
Debris and open burning26
Recreation and ceremony26
Arson/incendiarism11
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Smoking10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks3

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 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestANTLERS
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestDELTA
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestANTLER
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined63,458 acresShasta-Trinity National ForestDELTA
5 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestPOLLARD
5 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestTIE
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestLOAF
4 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestPUPPY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shasta County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Riverview: 8 past producers, 5 unknowns, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Silver, Copper. 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
Gossan GroupGold, Silver, CopperPast ProducerCopper, Gold, Silver
Gossan GroupGold, Copper, SilverUnknown
Gregory and WhalenCopperOccurrence
Gregory and WhalenCopperOccurrence
Grubstake Placer MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Slaughterhouse BarGold, SilverPast Producer
Bunker HillGoldPast Producer
Delta ConsolidatedGoldUnknown
LacomiaGoldUnknown
LaconiaGoldPast ProducerGold

Every working recorded in Shasta 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
Pollock1.0 miles29
Lakehead1.7 miles29
Delta1.9 miles29
Vollmers2.4 miles29
Antlers2.5 miles28
Lakeshore3.0 miles29
Lamoine4.1 miles29
Sugarloaf4.5 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1659522. 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.