Riverside, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Loco Hills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88210. The Survey maps it on the Spring Lake quadrangle.

Riverside within Eddy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Spring Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Carlsbad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Artesia quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1993 and 2019, burning about 647 acres in total. 4 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	16
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Natural	4
Firearms and explosives use	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 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	CONCHO
7 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	CARBON VALLEY COMPLEX
25 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	EMPIRE
2 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	ATLAS
18 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	EVANS
18 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carlsbad Field Office	MM115
18 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.1 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	RIVERSIDE
17 June 2008	Natural	209 acres	Carlsbad Field Office	CAT CLAW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eddy County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 7 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Empire Abo Sulfur Plant	Sulfur	Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Eddy 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
Artesia	6.5 miles	8
Atoka	7.0 miles	8
Dayton	8.7 miles	9
Espuela	8.9 miles	8
Illinois Camp	9.0 miles	10
Frontier Post	11.4 miles	9
Loco Hills	16.2 miles	6
Seven Rivers	17.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 929287. 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.