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Riverview, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Buffalo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65078. It stands on Roberts Branch. The Survey maps it on the Boylers Mill quadrangle.

Riverview within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Riverview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,026 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 36 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/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism36
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
7 August 1999Debris and open burning248 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 August 1999Arson/incendiarism152 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 August 1999Debris and open burning235 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 June 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 May 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation220603-00806-04092020-1730
9 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation220602-00806-04092020-1330

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Riverview: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Gouts Creek MineIronPast Producer
Wigwam Creek BankIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Morgan 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
Boylers Mill4.9 miles20
Todd (historical)5.3 miles24
Proctor7.2 miles24
Stover12.1 miles22
Gravois Mills13.1 miles25
Laurie13.6 miles22
Versailles16.2 miles23
Buck Creek16.3 miles22

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 RiverviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27986088The 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 725351. 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.