Riverside, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Buena Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81211. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harvard Lakes quadrangle.

Riverside within Chaffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1955 USGS Buena Vista quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Harvard Lakes quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Gunnison quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Harvard Lakes quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1992 and 2018, burning about 9 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 1 was 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
Recreation and ceremony	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	13
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	FOURMILE
11 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	TUNNEL
24 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Sedgwick Volunteer Fire Department	UNKNOWN
23 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	ELEPHANT FIRE
22 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	NUMBERS
14 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	DIRTY OLD MAN
7 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	BUFFALO PEAKS
4 July 2007	Natural	3.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	FRENCHMAN CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 7 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Gold, Copper, Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Josephine Mine	Gold, Cobalt	Producer	Gold
Josephine Mine	Cobalt, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Mt. Harvard	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Tamarack	Copper, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Tamarack	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Wapaca	Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Unidentified Gold Placer	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Unnamed Arkansas River Placer Deposit	Gold	Occurrence	Placer

Every working recorded in Chaffee 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
Americus	2.7 miles	20
Princeton	4.3 miles	20
Buena Vista	7.2 miles	22
Granite	8.4 miles	29
Johnson Village	9.7 miles	20
Vicksburg	11.1 miles	17
Newett	11.5 miles	16
Rockdale	12.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 189256. 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.