Riverside, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sioux City City. It lies in ZIP code area 51109. The Survey maps it on the Sioux City North quadrangle.

Riverside within Woodbury 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 2 records

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

Great Northern Railway Steam Locomotive No. 1355 and Tender 1451listed 2004 · 0.7 miles away
Milwaukee Railroad Shops Historic Districtlisted 2018 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Sioux City North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Sioux City North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Sioux City North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1998 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Fireworks	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 July 1999	Fireworks	under an acre	North Sioux Volunteer Fire Department	DAKOTA DUNES
5 July 2002	Fireworks	under an acre	North Sioux Volunteer Fire Department	I-29 MM 4
4 July 2005	Fireworks	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
26 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	101 COTTS
13 May 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HOFFMAN RD
12 May 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Desmet Volunteer Fire Department	#643
7 April 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	COUNTRY ACRES
16 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	1001 RIVER DRIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodbury 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: 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
	Unknown	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Woodbury 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
Mount Lucia	1.8 miles	12
Sioux City	4.5 miles	13
Springdale	6.0 miles	12
Holiday Village	6.6 miles	12
Leeds	6.7 miles	12
Regency of Sioux City	7.1 miles	12
Morningside	7.4 miles	12
Evergreen Village	8.0 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 460656. 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.