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Riverside, Missouri

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Pettis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64150. It stands on Jumping Branch. The Survey maps it on the North Kansas City quadrangle. 4,013 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Riverside within Platte County

Population over time

2 figures

Riverside grew from 2,937 to 4,013 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
20102,937
20204,013+1,076 (+37%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 40 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

81 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 2007 and 2019, burning about 28 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service24406
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service23511
2 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWyandotte County21119
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service21718

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 30 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite. 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
Lite Weight Products Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverside in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 12 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash 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
March 2006HailRiverside$50,000no account filed
April 1995HailRiverside$20,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindRiverside$8,000Numerous 5 to 6 inch diameter trees and power lines down. Five empty train cars were blown over near Interstate 635.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindRiverside$3,000Numerous trees were downed and widespread power outages reported, due to downed power lines. Communications was lost through much of Riverside.
August 2017Flash FloodRiverside-Line Creek was over its bank at Homestead Road and Homestead Terrace. Also, nearby W Platte Road was closed in both directions.
August 2017Flash FloodRiverside-A water rescue was performed at an unknown intersection in Riverside.
August 2017Flash FloodRiverside-Portions of NW Platte Drive and NW Gateway Ave between NW Woodland Road and NW Valley Lane were closed due to runoff from the bluff area and mud over the roadway.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRiverside-A NWS employee reported a 70-80 mph wind.
May 2016Flash FloodRiverside-Running water was reported over the roadway on Route 9 at the Riverside and Parkville city limit.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindRiverside-An NWS employee in north Kansas City reported an 80 mph estimated wind gust with the line of storms that moved through the area. nearby measurements would corroborate the estimate.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindRiverside-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured at 75 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindRiverside-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph, and a 6 inch diameter tree limb was snapped off.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindRiverside-Thunderstorm winds were estimated near 70 mph. Tree limbs were broken and small trees were blown over.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindRiverside-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
May 2009Flash FloodRiverside-Flooding was reported along Line Creek at the Homestead Road Apartments. Three duplexes had to be evacuated.
October 2009Flash FloodRiverside-Heavy rains caused Line Creek to flood around 64th Street. This caused the closing of the streets flood gate.
July 2008Flash FloodRiverside-Around two inches of rain caused major street flooding in Riverside. All creeks were reported full and one vehicle was stranded on Highway 9 and Horizons Parkway. Northbound West Platte Road was closed due to mud flow from bluffs and construction sites. Vandepopulier Road and Mattox Road were closed due to high water.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindRiverside-Thunderstorm winds broke tree limbs up to 8 inches in diameter.
April 1998HailRiverside-Quarter-size hail was reported in Platte County 3 miles north of Riverside. The hail covered the ground at the intersection of 56th St. and I-29.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRiverside-Thunderstorm winds knocked down 8 inch diameter tree limbs in Riverside.
August 2017HailRiverside-no account filed
April 2016HailRiverside-no account filed
April 2011HailRiverside-no account filed
August 2011HailRiverside-no account filed
May 2010HailRiverside-no account filed
June 2008HailRiverside-no account filed
May 2008HailRiverside-no account filed
May 2002HailRiverside-no account filed
May 2001HailRiverside-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Northmoor0.6 miles40
Breen Acres1.0 miles40
North Moor1.0 miles40
Houston Lake1.1 miles40
Parkdale2.0 miles40
Northern Heights2.5 miles40
Milton2.9 miles40
Parkville3.9 miles40

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 RiversideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961962The 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 725347. 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.