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Riverton, Minnesota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Riverton City. It lies in ZIP code area 56455. It stands on Ironton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Riverton quadrangle. 118 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.

Riverton within Crow Wing County

Population over time

2 figures

Riverton grew from 117 to 118 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010117
2020118+1 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Riverton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 338 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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 burning61
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2005Debris and open burning1.6 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 110 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 110 workings within 5 miles of Riverton: 97 past producers, 6 prospects, 4 producers, 3 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Manganese. 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
Algoma-Zeno MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1904, 1915
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Algoma MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Algoma MineManganeseProducer1920
Alstead MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Alstead-North Hillcrest MineManganesePast Producer1955
Arko MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Arko MineManganesePast Producer1955
Armour No.2 MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1912
Armour Number 1 MineManganesePast Producer1955

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverton in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 3 hail, 1 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
September 2014Thunderstorm WindRiverton-Trees were down and blocking a road.
September 2021HailRiverton-no account filed
August 2014HailRiverton-no account filed
August 2014HailRiverton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crow Wing 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
Homecroft (historical)2.3 miles14
Trommald3.6 miles10
Loerch4.1 miles14
Ironton4.1 miles11
Klondyke4.7 miles11
Armour Number Two Mine4.7 miles11
Woodrow5.1 miles14
Manganese5.2 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 RivertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1887967The 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 650151. 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.