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Riverdale, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Garden Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65714. It stands on Hog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Highlandville quadrangle. It stands 1,070 feet above sea level.

Riverdale within Christian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Riverdale between 1992 and 2011, burning about 180 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3

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 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 September 2011Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 August 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 July 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Christian County

Storms near this place

29 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverdale in 29 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 flash flood, 4 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
January 2008Tornado (EF1)Riverdale1 hurt, $200,000A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-1 tornado tracked across a rural section of west central Christian County. This tornado damaged numerous homes while destroying two mobile homes. One injury resulted from this tornado as one women was hit by debris as the tornado destroyed her mobile home.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindRiverdale$50,000One home completely lost its roof however no windows or glass was broken at the home. Another home lost significant portions of its roof and the garage door was bent inward. A large tree was also uprooted.
May 2024HailRiverdale$15,000Report of tennis ball size hail.
September 2010Flash FloodRiverdale$10,000A vehicle was reported submerged in the Finley River near Riverdale Road and Aven Spring Road. The occupants escaped unharmed.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindRiverdale$10,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts damaged a barn.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRiverdale$5,000Report of 1-inch tree limbs broken and shingles blown off.
May 2024HailRiverdale$5,000Report of hail 2 inches in diameter.
May 2024HailRiverdale$5,000Report of hail 2 inches in diameter.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindRiverdale$5,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRiverdale$3,000Trees were down on the road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindRiverdale$1,000A tree ten inches in diameter was reported down.
April 2025Flash FloodRiverdale-The low water bridge on Melton Road over a Tributary of Hog Creek.
April 2025FloodRiverdale-Blockages in drainage ditches became more widespread leading to localized flooding with water covering several roads.
May 2025Flash FloodRiverdale-Two feet of water was reported over the roadway at South Seneca Road and Riverdale Drive.
May 2025FloodRiverdale-There was a road closure near the intersection of McCauley Road and River Oaks Drive due to flooding along the Finley Creek.
May 2024HailRiverdale-Report of ping pong ball size hail.
May 2020FloodRiverdale-Water from the Finely River flowing out of its banks closed Riverdale Road east of the Finley River low water bridge.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-Winds estimated to 60 mph were reported via MPing.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-A large tree was snapped a few feet of the ground on Hickory Drive southwest of Ozark, MO.
May 2019FloodRiverdale-The Finley River was flooded over Riverdale Road for several hours. This was a continuation of flooding that began on April 30th.
October 2019Heavy RainRiverdale-The CoCoRaHS station mo-cr-13 near Nixa reported 2.17 inches of rainfall.
October 2019Heavy RainRiverdale-The Mesonet station FINM7 at the Finley River near Ozark reported 2.18 inches of rainfall.
August 2018Heavy RainRiverdale-The Mesonet station FINM7 reported rainfall of 4.11 inches.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-A tree was blown down.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts from a storm that acquired a bow echo configuration on radar knocked over a large tree across Tennessee Road near its intersection with Highway F.
June 2008Flash FloodRiverdale-Widespread flooding of roads and low water crossings occurred across Christian County. Rainfall amounts ranged from two to five inches, with the heavier amounts occurring across southern Christian County. A few locations that flooded included a section of Highway O two miles southwest of Highlandville, a low water crossing at the intersection of Bull Creek and Center Road, and section of Highway O five miles southwest of Highlandville.
December 2017HailRiverdale-no account filed
March 2008HailRiverdale-no account filed
May 2002HailRiverdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Christian 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
Nixa3.3 miles21
Selmore3.7 miles13
Highlandville4.3 miles12
Ozark4.8 miles23
Montague5.1 miles12
Fremont Hills5.3 miles23
Cassidy5.5 miles23
Boaz6.1 miles20

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 Q28368411The 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 725341. 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.