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Riverview, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Pensacola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32514. It stands on Ferry Pass Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Pace quadrangle.

Riverview within Escambia County

Then and now

1920 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 74 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 1994
Topographic sheet of Riverview, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Riverview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 554 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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
Railroad operations and maintenance28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Other causes2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
26 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceIVAN DEBRIS FIRE -1127
16 August 2009Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Service57-ESCAMBIA FILL FIRE-0879
7 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSAN RAFAEL (57)
6 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOLIVE FIRE PILE 1125
4 July 2002Railroad operations and maintenance100 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFLEMINGCIRCLEFIRE-0935
21 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 90 (57)
16 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia 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 Riverview: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, 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
Edward M. Chadburn, Inc. - Bitucrete MineSandUnknown
Santa Rosa PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverview in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Flash FloodRiverview$100,000Several roads closed due to standing water and flooding across the Pensacola area. Cars were stalled in several intersections due to high water.
February 2025Tornado (EF1)Riverview-A brief, compact EF1 tornado occurred in Ferry Pass along Bill Metzger Lane and tracked northeast to Copter Road. This tornado primarily damaged metal roofing of buildings in the area along its track.

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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
Ferry Pass2.4 miles17
Yniestra3.4 miles17
Olive3.9 miles17
Ensley4.4 miles17
Bohemia4.5 miles17
Satsuma Heights4.8 miles17
Gaberonne5.4 miles17
Brent5.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295578. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.