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Riverside, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Franklin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30217. It stands on Centralhatchee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle.

Riverside within Heard 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

7 surveys from 12 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 845 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 19 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 burning80
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural10
Smoking10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3

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
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HEARD-007
19 September 2003Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Arson/incendiarism14 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HEARD001
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1993Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2006Natural15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2015Smoking2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-HEARD-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Heard County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Riverside: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite. 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
The Wynn QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Heard County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverside in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindRiverside$3,000Several trees downed and a few powerlines downed north of Franklin, GA. Along Eley Rd, Cassell Rd., and 5 Knotch Rd.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRiverside$1,000A tree was downed across 5 Notch Road near Patterson Lane.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindRiverside$1,000The Heard County 911 Center reported a tree blown down on Notnomis Road.

Every storm recorded in Heard 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
Franklin0.8 miles12
Viola2.3 miles11
Shellnut2.3 miles11
Rockridge2.6 miles11
Whispering Pines2.8 miles12
Five Points4.2 miles12
Capstan (historical)4.5 miles12
Ridley5.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 347137. 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.