Riverdale, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Great Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59485. It lies near Nelson Island. The Survey maps it on the Nelson Island quadrangle.

Riverdale within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1949 USGS Cascade quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1951 USGS Cascade quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Great Falls South quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Nelson Island quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Riverdale between 2017 and 2018, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	DEARBORN
30 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	ULM
4 June 2018	Natural	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
21 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Central Land Office	CASCADE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Garrison (historical)	2.9 miles	16
Fair Haven Colony	4.4 miles	16
Castner Falls	5.8 miles	12
Saint Clair (historical)	6.5 miles	15
Ulm	7.4 miles	16
Cascade	7.7 miles	15
Truly	8.0 miles	12
Cascade Colony	13.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 775788. 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.