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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Tinnie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Ruidoso quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Sunset quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
38 since 1993Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2017 | Natural | 25 acres | Roswell Field Office | PANTHER |
| 9 August 1995 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Roswell Field Office | ROADSIDEPK |
| 4 August 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Roswell Field Office | BORDER |
| 2 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | TWIN LITTLE |
| 15 August 2010 | Natural | 37 acres | Capitan District | MCKNIGHT |
| 2 July 2007 | Natural | 100 acres | Roswell Field Office | BONNEY |
| 11 July 2000 | Natural | 5.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MCCRAY |
| 1 July 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Capitan District | 20-50010008X |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
3 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Hail | Riverside | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Riverside | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Riverside | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunset | 0.9 miles | 9 | |
| Picacho | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Tinnie | 9.2 miles | 9 | |
| Hondo | 11.8 miles | 9 | |
| Escondido (historical) | 14.6 miles | 9 | |
| San Patricio | 15.1 miles | 9 | |
| Bluewater | 16.9 miles | 15 | |
| Arabela | 18.5 miles | 15 |
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 Riverside | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18390557 | 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 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.





