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Riviera West, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Clearlake Riviera census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95451. It sits by Buckingham Bluffs. The Survey maps it on the Clearlake Highlands quadrangle. It stands 1,693 feet above sea level.

Riviera West within Lake County

Then and now

1945 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 48 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Riviera West, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Riviera West, surveyed 1945

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

419 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 419 fires within 5 miles of Riviera West between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,672 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 58 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/undetermined172
Debris and open burning77
Equipment and vehicle use67
Arson/incendiarism58
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Smoking12
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes3
Natural1

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 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSonoma-Lake Napa Unit4TH ST CLEARLAKE_CITY
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitWIDGEON WY / SHADY LN
9 September 1995Smoking2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitKELSEYVILLE
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHWY 20 / LAKEVIEW DR
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHIGH
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionVISTA
7 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBRUNER
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitNORTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Riviera West: 13 occurrences, 9 unknowns, 6 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Stone, Sulfur, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Borax LakeBoron-Borates, Halite, Sodium, CobaltPast Producer1856, 1864, 1874
Immel PropertyMineral Pigments, IronPast Producer
Konocti QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Volcanic MaterialsProducer
LucittaMercury, KaolinPast Producer1885
S-Bar-S RanchDiamondOccurrence
Sulphur Bank MineSulfur, MercuryPast Producer1865, 1873
Bartlet SpringsDiatomiteUnknown
Clear Lake QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clearlake Lava Pit and MillPumiceProducer
S-Bar-S QuarryPumiceProducer

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Riviera Estates0.6 miles21
Buckingham Park1.9 miles21
Soda Bay2.3 miles21
Glenhaven2.7 miles21
Clear Lake Riviera2.8 miles21
Eastlake (historical)4.5 miles21
Clearlake Oaks4.8 miles21
Kelseyville4.9 miles20

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 Riviera WestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7338881The 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 1766180. 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.