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Riverside, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Tyrone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88028. It stands on Lobo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cliff quadrangle. It stands 4,482 feet above sea level.

Riverside within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1993 and 2020, burning about 84 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 July 2015Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionIRON BRIDGE
11 July 1993Naturalunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeMANGUS
28 June 2000Natural10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSHIRLEY
25 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSocorro DistrictSYCAMORE
12 June 1994Natural40 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeSYCAMORE
29 April 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRIVER
30 March 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionOLD COTTONWD
1 March 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMESA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, 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
Materials Pit 64-12-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black TowerManganesePast Producer1954
Black Tower ClaimManganesePast ProducerVein
HillsideManganesePast ProducerVein
HillsideManganesePast Producer1952

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Cliff2.3 miles10
Gila2.6 miles10
Mangas Springs7.6 miles11
Buckhorn9.4 miles13
Telegraph (historical)10.7 miles11
Alhambra (historical)15.2 miles12
Black Hawk (historical)16.1 miles12
Little Walnut Village18.3 miles14

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 RiversideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18390554The 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 893985. 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.