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.
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
Republican River Bridgelisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresRiverton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 89 | |
| 2020 | 57 | -32 (-36%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1897 USGS Red Cloud quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Riverton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Red Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 October 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
36 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Flood | Riverton | $100,000 | Heavy 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 1997 | Hail | Riverton | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Riverton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Riverton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Riverton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Riverton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Riverton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Riverton | $5,000 | Accompanying the hail was estimated 70 mph wind gusts. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Riverton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Riverton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | $2,000 | Wind gusts estimated at 70 mph. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | $1,000 | The wind knocked down a portion of a wood fence and small tree debris was blown across the road. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | - | A wind gust of 69 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles west-northwest of Riverton. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | - | A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles west-northwest of Riverton. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | - | A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles west-northwest of Riverton. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | - | 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 2013 | Flood | Riverton | - | 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 2011 | Heavy Rain | Riverton | - | Storm total rainfall of 3.05 inches reported over last 24 hours by a NeRAIN observer. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Riverton | - | Storm total rainfall amount was 3.43 inches. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (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 2024 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Riverton | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Riverton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1929040 | The 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.





