Riverside Hills, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Macon West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31204. It stands on Bowman Branch. The Survey maps it on the Macon West quadrangle.

Riverside Hills within Bibb County

On record in Riverside Hills

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 6 records

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

Munroe-Goolsby Houselisted 1972 · 0.8 miles away
Small Houselisted 1971 · 0.8 miles away
Davis-Guttenberger-Rankin Houselisted 1973 · 0.9 miles away
Solomon-Smith-Martin Houselisted 1971 · 1.0 miles away
Vineville Historic Districtlisted 1980 · 0.8 miles away
Pleasant Hill Historic Districtlisted 1986 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1956 USGS Macon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Macon West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

172 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Riverside Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 385 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 32 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 burning	73
Arson/incendiarism	32
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Smoking	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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
6 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021BIBB002
30 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BIBB001
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1993	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb 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 Riverside Hills: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fullers Earth, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Burns Brick Co Mine	Clay	Producer
	Pikes Peak Fuller's Earth	Fullers Earth	Past Producer	Cristobalite, Opal, Montmorillonite

Every working recorded in Bibb 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
Jackson Heights	0.5 miles	14
Brookwood Hills	1.0 miles	14
Vineville	1.0 miles	14
Northwoods	1.0 miles	14
Ingleside	1.2 miles	14
Shirley Hills	1.3 miles	14
Highland Circle	1.4 miles	14
Riverview	1.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672263. 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.