Riverside, Montana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Yellowstone National Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59758. The Survey maps it on the West Yellowstone quadrangle.

Riverside within Gallatin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1955 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS West Yellowstone quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS West Yellowstone quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Hebgen Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2000 USGS West Yellowstone quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1992 and 2019, burning about 521 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Smoking	8
Natural	5
Fireworks	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
7 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	LITTLE
6 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BAKERS HOLE
4 September 1998	Other causes	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	STATION
25 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	LAST
24 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	TETON OVERLOOK
22 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	SEWAGE ROAD
2 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BIRD DOG
13 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	DUNRAVEN 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallatin 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 Riverside: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bakers Hole Well	Geothermal	Producer
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gallatin 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
West Yellowstone	1.7 miles	13
Railroad Summer Home Area	4.0 miles	14
Corette	4.2 miles	14
Lakeshore Summer Home Area	9.3 miles	14
Lonesome Hurst Summer Home Area	10.3 miles	14
Romsett Summer Home Area	10.7 miles	14
Grayling	12.0 miles	12
Lakeview	13.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 801368. 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.