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Riverview, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Croton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49337. It stands on Little Muskegon River. The Survey maps it on the Croton quadrangle.

Riverview within Newaygo County

On record in Riverview

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

8 surveys from 12 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

191 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Riverview between 1994 and 2020, burning about 758 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 were 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 burning97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony12
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking5
Other causes3
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROTON TOWNSHIP FD 143 - 2020
19 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestTEREX
11 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROTON TOWNSHIP FD 144 - 2020
9 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestLONE TREE
4 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestPRICKLY PEAR
4 August 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestOXBOW LAKE
11 August 2007Debris and open burning2.2 acresHuron-Manistee National Forest28TH STEET
9 July 2005Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestCEMETARY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newaygo 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 Riverview: 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
K & V PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Newaygo 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
Croton0.8 miles12
Croton Heights1.1 miles12
Oxbow2.9 miles12
Tift Corner3.9 miles12
Oxbow Park4.9 miles13
Big Prairie4.9 miles13
Big Bend6.4 miles13
Ensley Center7.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 636019. 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.