Rivervale, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bono Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47446. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bedford East quadrangle. It stands 515 feet above sea level.

Rivervale within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1934 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:48000
1934 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bedford East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Bedford East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rivervale in 2014, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	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
21 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	TUNNELTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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 Rivervale: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	V. I. Grissom Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Lawrenceport	1.3 miles	17
Buddha	1.7 miles	17
Spring Mill Village	2.8 miles	17
Tunnelton	2.9 miles	15
Stonington	3.0 miles	13
Pinhook	3.9 miles	15
Rabbitville	4.0 miles	17
Woodville	4.7 miles	17

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 Rivervale	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7338696	The 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 449719. 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.