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Riverdale, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Seville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48877. The Survey maps it on the Riverdale quadrangle. 281 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Riverdale within Gratiot County

On record in Riverdale

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 10 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Riverdale between 2018 and 2020, burning about 37 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
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
3 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000031 - 2019
15 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMA FD 0000137 - 2019
13 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use24 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTCALM 01
23 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000027 - 2018
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000026 - 2018
19 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMA FD 0000079 - 2020
1 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMA FD 0000066 - 2019
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL TOWNSHIP FD 0017-20 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gratiot 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 Riverdale: 1 producer. All of them 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
Elm Hall Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gratiot County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverdale in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2013FloodRiverdale$3,000,000Heavy rainfall caused significant flooding on rivers and streams across Gratiot county.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindRiverdale$610,000Michigan State Police EMD's Damage and Injury Assessment Report indicated $610,000 in public damage costs, 2675 homes damaged, 10 homes destroyed, and 100 businesses destroyed. Private damage cost estimates were not available. The county reported significant public health and safety risks due to the widespread loss of power and telephone service. The Michigan National Guard supplied a generator and water supply tanker to the Michigan Department of Corrections to address the need for power and water at the Mid-Michigan Correctional Facility in St. Louis, in Gratiot County. Gratiot County declared a local state of emergency and was granted a Governor's declaration to activate state assistance for the county. On June 24th, President Clinton granted a Major Disaster Declaration for Gratiot County, making federal disaster assistance available.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindRiverdale$50,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gratiot 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
Elm Hall1.4 miles11
Elwell4.8 miles14
Sumner5.5 miles11
Summerton8.0 miles14
Forest Hill8.7 miles14
Alma9.3 miles14
Eugene9.4 miles14
New Haven Center9.9 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 RiverdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113961991The 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 635974. 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.