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Riverdale, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Seventy-Six Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67152. The Survey maps it on the Wellington quadrangle.

Riverdale within Sumner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

28 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Riverdale between 2001 and 2020, burning about 245 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Service133
28 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use50 acresSumner County128
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSumner County93
28 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresSumner County740
22 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service139

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumner County

Storms near this place

17 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverdale in 17 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 flood. 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 2019Flash FloodRiverdale$200,000Kansas Department of Transportation reported the Kansas Turnpike (Interstate 35) was closed from the Wichita Toll booth the the Wellington exit due to flooding.
September 2008FloodRiverdale$10,000Flooding along the Ninnescah River lead to evacuations in the Ponderosa area west of Belle Plaine.
September 2008Flash FloodRiverdale$6,000Water ran over numerous roads across the county. Fast runnnig water covered the road along Highway 81 west of Belle Plaine and also south of Belle Plaine on Oliver near 60th Avenue. A water rescue was performed at 60th Avenue when a pickup truck tried to drive through 2 feet deep water and became stranded when his truck was pushed off the road. A local resident with an airboat helped in the rescue.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindRiverdale$5,000A power pole was knocked at 70th Avenue and Seneca.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindRiverdale$3,000A large hedge tree was blown down.
September 2016FloodRiverdale$100Water was overflowing the Kansas Turnpike at mile marker 29 just west of Belle Plaine.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-Public report via mPing of trees uprooted or snapped.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-Wind damage was reported via mPING.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-This report is from the Riverdale area.
April 2016HailRiverdale-The report was relayed from a storm spotter.
May 2008Flash FloodRiverdale-The roads around Belle Plaine once again became covered in water due to a second batch of heavy rains that moved across the area.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-no account filed
June 2022HailRiverdale-no account filed
October 2019HailRiverdale-no account filed
June 2009HailRiverdale-no account filed
April 2008HailRiverdale-no account filed
March 2008Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumner 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
Cicero3.7 miles13
Zyba4.3 miles14
Belle Plaine6.0 miles14
Peck7.3 miles14
Anson7.4 miles19
Wellington7.4 miles13
Roland8.1 miles14
Dalton9.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 470163. 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.

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.