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Riverside, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Moreland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83221. The Survey maps it on the Moreland quadrangle. 930 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,459 feet above sea level.

Riverside within Bingham County

Population over time

2 figures

Riverside grew from 838 to 930 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010838
2020930+92 (+11%)

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.

Fires near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1995 and 2020, burning about 672 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBingham CountyBINGHAM COUNTY ASSIST 8
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFort Hall AgencyFORT HALL ASSIST 4
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresBingham CountyBINGHAM COUNTY ASSIST 7
4 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFort Hall AgencyFT. HALL ASST 3
4 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFort Hall AgencyFT HALL ASST 12
4 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFort Hall AgencyFT HALL ASST 11
4 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFort Hall AgencyFT HALL ASST 10
27 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictBINGHAM COUNTY ASSIST 10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bingham County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Platinum, Titanium. 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
Welch Ground, and Gold Point and Eagle BendGold, Platinum, TitaniumProducer1865
Gold Point and Eagle Bend PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Snake River PlacerGoldPast Producer
Welch GroundGoldPast Producer
Blackfoot Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bingham County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverside in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 1 funnel cloud, 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
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Riverside$1,000An EF0 tornado touched down 2 miles south of Riverside nd moved north for 1.8 miles crossing the Snake River before dissipating just south os W 100 S (Thomas Road) and between S 275 W and S 670 W just south of Riverside. Damage consisted of a mix of several young and mature cottonwood trees that were wither snapped or uprooted on both private and BLM land . One downed live tree measured a foot in diameter. Another much larger downed tree was found with a diameter close to two feet. Minor damage was reported to a greenhouse. Maximum wind speeds were estimated at 80 to 85 mph with path width of 50-100 yards. It was on the ground for 1.8 miles.
June 2009Funnel CloudRiverside-Funnel cloud sighted 1.5 miles west of Riverside.

Every storm recorded in Bingham 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
Clarkson1.3 miles12
Aiken1.7 miles12
Moreland1.8 miles12
Aberdeen Junction2.6 miles12
Rouse3.1 miles12
Collins3.2 miles12
Groveland3.7 miles13
Thomas3.8 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on RiversideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3937924The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 374693. 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.