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Riverdale, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 28. It lies in ZIP code area 68870. The Survey maps it on the Riverdale quadrangle. 247 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,182 feet above sea level.

Riverdale within Buffalo County

Population over time

2 figures

Riverdale grew from 182 to 247 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
2010182
2020247+65 (+36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

What the histories say of this town

406 words

1 chapter about Riverdale from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Buffalo County, Nebraska, and Its People : a Record of Settlement, OrgBuffalo County, Nebraska, and Its People : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement (1916)406 words

Fires near this place

47 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Riverdale between 2008 and 2019, burning about 91 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2012Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Riverdale: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Johnson Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Buffalo County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverdale in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 18 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 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
June 2002HailRiverdale$10,000,000no account filed
March 2019Flash FloodRiverdale$1,000,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindRiverdale$500,000Wind gusts were estimated at 80 to 90 MPH, resulting in overturned pivots and knocked down power lines, with power flashes and outages also reported.
April 2015HailRiverdale$250,000no account filed
May 2013HailRiverdale$75,000Ping pong ball to golf ball size hail was reported.
September 2015HailRiverdale$35,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRiverdale$25,000Wind gusts in and around Kearney were estimated to be in the 60 to 70 MPH range. Wind gusts of 61 MPH were recorded by the Kearney Regional Airport AWOS and a mesonet station located 2 miles north-northeast of Kearney. Small tree branches were downed around town, and a large tree limb knocked down power lines and snapped a power pole near the Buffalo County Fairgrounds. Some minor shingle damage was also reported on the northwest side of town.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindRiverdale$25,000no account filed
July 2008HailRiverdale$5,000Accompanied by a wind gust measured at 42 mph.
June 1998HailRiverdale$5,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-A wind gust of 66 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located one mile north of Riverdale and a gust of 59 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located two miles south of Riverdale.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 65 MPH.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
August 2014Heavy RainRiverdale-This 24-hour storm total rainfall was 3.22 inches, with most of the rain falling between 10 pm CDT and 3 am CDT. This report was received via the NERAIN network.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
June 1994HailRiverdale-Thunderstorm winds up to 80 mph caused tree damage at Gibbon. Golf ball-size hail caused crop damage near Riverdale.
August 2023HailRiverdale-no account filed
August 2023HailRiverdale-no account filed
July 2020HailRiverdale-no account filed
September 2017HailRiverdale-no account filed
September 2015HailRiverdale-no account filed
August 2014HailRiverdale-no account filed
June 2005HailRiverdale-no account filed
May 2003HailRiverdale-no account filed
May 2000HailRiverdale-no account filed
July 1995HailRiverdale-no account filed
June 1994HailRiverdale-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindRiverdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buffalo 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
Glenwood Park4.8 miles20
Amherst5.8 miles16
R-Villa Courts6.3 miles20
Alfalfa Center6.4 miles18
Kearney7.3 miles20
Prairie View Estates7.3 miles20
Odessa7.6 miles16
Prairie Center7.7 miles16

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 Q2516346The 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 832573. 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.