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Riverton, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68972. It stands on Thompson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Riverton quadrangle. 57 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,768 feet above sea level.

Riverton within Franklin County

On record in Riverton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Riverton fell from 89 to 57 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
201089
202057-32 (-36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Riverton in 2018, burning about 62 acres in total. None 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
2 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 February 2018Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 October 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverton in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 21 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 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
May 2019FloodRiverton$100,000Heavy rainfall caused the flooding of area creeks, including the Thompson Creek, and portions of the Republican River. County roads in the area and bridges crossing the waterways were affected. Buildings in Riverton were threatened by rising waters of Thompson Creek. The Thompson Creek gauge at Riverton crested at 13.27 feet the morning of May 27th, and that was the 2nd highest crest on record. The Republican River gauge at Riverton crested at 9.45 feet the morning of the 27th, and that was the 2nd highest crest on record.
July 1997HailRiverton$75,000no account filed
May 2012HailRiverton$50,000no account filed
June 2002HailRiverton$50,000no account filed
June 2017HailRiverton$25,000no account filed
May 2012HailRiverton$25,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindRiverton$25,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRiverton$20,000no account filed
May 2002HailRiverton$10,000no account filed
May 2007HailRiverton$5,000Accompanying the hail was estimated 70 mph wind gusts.
July 2008HailRiverton$5,000no account filed
June 1998HailRiverton$5,000no account filed
September 2009Thunderstorm WindRiverton$2,000Wind gusts estimated at 70 mph.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindRiverton$1,000The wind knocked down a portion of a wood fence and small tree debris was blown across the road.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindRiverton-A wind gust of 69 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles west-northwest of Riverton.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRiverton-A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles west-northwest of Riverton.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindRiverton-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles west-northwest of Riverton.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindRiverton-A farm building under construction was destroyed, likely by a combination of a strong gradient wind enhanced by thunderstorm outflow. Photo received via Facebook.
June 2013FloodRiverton-Heavy rain overflowed Thompson Creek during the night and resulted in several rural road blockages well into the morning hours, including near 41 1/2 and J Roads.
May 2011Heavy RainRiverton-Storm total rainfall of 3.05 inches reported over last 24 hours by a NeRAIN observer.
August 2010Heavy RainRiverton-Storm total rainfall amount was 3.43 inches.
May 1993Tornado (F1)Riverton-Tornado first spotted near the Kansas state line four miles south of Riverton where it destroyed grain bins and outbuildings on a farm. It was last spotted at Franklin.
May 2024HailRiverton-no account filed
May 2024HailRiverton-no account filed
April 2023HailRiverton-no account filed
May 2023HailRiverton-no account filed
June 2019HailRiverton-no account filed
May 2017HailRiverton-no account filed
June 2017HailRiverton-no account filed
May 2011HailRiverton-no account filed
May 2010HailRiverton-no account filed
April 2007HailRiverton-no account filed
April 2007HailRiverton-no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindRiverton-no account filed
March 2004HailRiverton-no account filed
April 2003Funnel CloudRiverton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Franklin10.3 miles12
Macon13.0 miles12
Campbell14.5 miles12
Bloomington14.7 miles13
Upland17.5 miles12
Naponee20.3 miles13
Hildreth22.8 miles13

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 RivertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1929040The 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 832599. 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.

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.