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Riverside, Nevada

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89007. It lies near Cook Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Riverside quadrangle.

Riverside within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,434 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Firearms and explosives use1
Smoking1

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
16 September 2001Debris and open burning180 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeVIRGINRIVE
15 September 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeRIVERSIDE
7 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeTIE
21 August 1992Smokingunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeI15107CLAR
16 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeMM 111
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeCCFD 5
9 July 2018Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeI15 MM 109
8 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined137 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeTOQUOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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
Bruna Biasi WellGeothermalProducer
Bunkerville Water Users Assoc.GeothermalProducer
Unnamed WellGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverside in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2010HailRiverside$20,000Large hail dented several cars on Interstate 15. The hail size is an estimate, and may be underestimated considering the nature of damage reported.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindRiverside$15,000A thunderstorm wind gust blew over a semi truck on Interstate 15 just south of Exit 112.
March 2021HailRiverside-A driver on Interstate 15 posted a short video of estimated one inch diameter hail occurring on the freeway.
May 2011HailRiverside-A motorcyclist on Interstate 15 reported hail up to penny size.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindRiverside-The Laughlin Fire Department reported wind gusts up to 58 mph from a nearby thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Bunkerville5.5 miles20
Mesquite9.4 miles20
Saint Joseph (historical)16.6 miles21
Old Overton (historical)16.8 miles21
Simonsville (historical)16.8 miles21
Logandale17.0 miles21
Amber17.0 miles21
Moapa Valley17.0 miles21

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 Q7338390The 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 843237. 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.