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Riverside, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rome census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30161. It stands on Big Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rome North quadrangle.

Riverside within Floyd County

On record in Riverside

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

285 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 285 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1992 and 2019, burning about 549 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 101 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
Debris and open burning109
Arson/incendiarism101
Equipment and vehicle use22
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking7
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burning2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-FLOYD-016
29 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning8.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 5 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Rome Quarry Fla Rock IndusStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Berry School Shale PitClayPast Producer
Rome City Shale QuarryClayPast Producer
Burney MineAluminumPast Producer
Evans ProspectAluminumProspect
J T Waters MineAluminumPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectAluminumProspect
Wright MineAluminumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverside in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
January 2013Thunderstorm WindRiverside$50,000The Floyd County Emergency Manager reported that a tree was blown down onto power lines on Woodward street, and another fell on a house on Dogwood Street. One person was trapped in the Dogwood Street home but did not sustain any injuries.
July 2021Flash FloodRiverside-The public reported water flowing over the roadway near Mount Berry Square Mall and Armuchee Connector. Radar estimates indicate that 1 to 2.5 inches of rain fell over the area, on top of the 1 to 3 inches that fell the day prior. These amounts, falling on the already saturated soils, produced flash flooding.
November 2010HailRiverside-The cooperative observer for Rome reported nickel-sized hail in the area three to four miles southeast of Rome.

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Riverside Park0.3 miles18
Summerville Park0.7 miles18
Mount Berry1.3 miles18
North Rome1.4 miles18
Atteiram Heights1.5 miles18
North Hills1.6 miles18
DeSoto Homes1.8 miles18
Rome1.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 353849. 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.