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Riverview, Indiana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Shawswick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47421. It stands on Adamson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bedford West quadrangle.

Riverview within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Riverview between 2002 and 2019, burning about 18 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
Debris and open burning4

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
17 March 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresHoosier National ForestMAPLE RIDGE FIRE
18 February 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestBRIARWOOD
2 December 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresHoosier National ForestRACKOVICH FIRE
8 October 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresHoosier National ForestSOUTH I FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Riverview: 13 past producers, 9 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Baalbeck QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Lawrence Co. Hwy. Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Fluorite OccurrenceFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
Bedford Ground Limestone PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bedford Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverview in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2008FloodRiverview$12,000Flooding occurred along the East Fork White River in Lawrence County, including near Bedford, due to heavy rain and snow melt.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindRiverview$10,000Thunderstorm winds damaged the facade of the Rural King at 1320 James Avenue in Bedford.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindRiverview$10,000A tree was downed at 29th and Illinois due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Other tree limbs and trees were reported down in Bedford, along with a construction trailer flipped over.
February 2008FloodRiverview$10,000Flooding occurred along the East Fork White River in Lawrence County, including near Bedford, due to heavy rain and snow melt. Numerous county roads were flooded including Indiana 450, Fort Ritner Road, and Buddha Bypass Road.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Coxton1.4 miles21
Eureka2.3 miles21
Englewood2.3 miles17
Fayetteville3.1 miles21
Bedford3.2 miles17
Hartleyville3.2 miles21
Dark Hollow3.2 miles22
Tarry Park3.3 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 451838. 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.