Riviera, California

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1888 1993

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.

• 1888 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
• 1891 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1912 USGS Gridley quadrangle1:31680
• 1952 USGS Gridley quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1952 USGS Gridley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
• 1993 USGS Yuba City quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 427 fires within 5 miles of Riviera (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 719 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Live Oak
• Bihlman (historical)
• Pennington
• Sunset

Every fire recorded in Sutter County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Riviera (historical): 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Sutter County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1703419. 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.