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Riverview Acres, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Columbus Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47203. The Survey maps it on the Columbus quadrangle.

Riverview Acres within Bartholomew County

On record in Riverview Acres

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

6 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Riverview Acres between 2001 and 2005, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
14 November 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 October 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 October 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartholomew County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Riverview Acres: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Carter Gravel CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rees PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Spray Sand and Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bartholomew County

Storms near this place

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverview Acres in 13 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 4 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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
April 2018FloodRiverview Acres1 killedFox 59 reported that a missing kayaker was found dead Friday, April 6th not far from where his kayak was found earlier in the day. The DNR said his body was found about 100 yards away from his kayak, located between Tannehill Bridge and Lowell Bridge on the Driftwood River.||It is believed the 26-year-old man drowned while kayaking on suspected flood waters of the Driftwood River near Columbus on the morning of April 5th. Moderate flooding was occurring on the East Fork White River at Columbus which is slightly downstream from the incident. The time and location of the report is estimated.
March 2008FloodRiverview Acres$10,000Flooding occurred along the Flatrock River in Bartholomew County, including near Columbus, due to heavy rain. Multiple roads were flooded due to the heavy rain.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindRiverview Acres$7,000Trees, up to 3 feet in diameter, were downed on the north side of Columbus due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
February 2008FloodRiverview Acres$7,000Flooding occurred along the Flatrock River in Bartholomew County, including near Columbus, due to heavy rain and snow melt.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindRiverview Acres$5,000A 1.5 ft diameter pine tree snapped by thunderstorm wind gusts 7 ft off the ground along with another tree snapped nearby.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindRiverview Acres$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs on northeast side of Columbus through 1456 EST, with multiple pictures via social media. Also, the Columbus Bakalar Municipal Airport (KBAK) AWOS recorded a maximum wind gust of 62 kts at 1505 EST.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindRiverview Acres$5,000A 80-year old tree was snapped off near its base by thunderstorm winds. The tree landed on top of a car, partly crushing it.
December 2013FloodRiverview Acres$1,000Water was reported to be coming across the road from both sides near the intersection of Marr and Rocky Ford Roads.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindRiverview Acres$200A six inch diameter tree limb was reported down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2012HailRiverview Acres-Quarter sized hail was observed in northwest Columbus on Lowell Road, just west of Highway 31.
August 2023HailRiverview Acres-no account filed
May 2011HailRiverview Acres-no account filed
May 2011HailRiverview Acres-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bartholomew 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
Forest Park0.6 miles14
Parkside0.6 miles14
Flat Rock Park0.8 miles15
North Columbus0.9 miles14
Corn Brook1.0 miles14
Lowell1.5 miles15
Everroad Park2.0 miles14
North Gate2.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 442106. 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.