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Riverside, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88343. The Survey maps it on the Sunset quadrangle. It stands 4,754 feet above sea level.

Riverside within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1993 and 2020, burning about 35,731 acres in total. 17 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
Natural17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning2

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
18 September 2017Natural25 acresRoswell Field OfficePANTHER
9 August 1995Natural6.0 acresRoswell Field OfficeROADSIDEPK
4 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRoswell Field OfficeBORDER
2 August 2012Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTWIN LITTLE
15 August 2010Natural37 acresCapitan DistrictMCKNIGHT
2 July 2007Natural100 acresRoswell Field OfficeBONNEY
11 July 2000Natural5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMCCRAY
1 July 2019Naturalunder an acreCapitan District20-50010008X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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 Riverside: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverside in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 3 hail. 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 2010HailRiverside-no account filed
August 2008HailRiverside-no account filed
May 2008HailRiverside-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Sunset0.9 miles9
Picacho4.7 miles9
Tinnie9.2 miles9
Hondo11.8 miles9
Escondido (historical)14.6 miles9
San Patricio15.1 miles9
Bluewater16.9 miles15
Arabela18.5 miles15

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 Q18390557The 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 898592. 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.