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Riverside Park, Nevada

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Jackpot census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89825. It stands on Mule Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jackpot quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Riverside Park within Elko 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Riverside Park (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 74,783 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
8 August 2012Natural2.0 acresElko District OfficeY 3 RANCH
20 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use13,745 acresIdaho Falls DistrictMULE CREEK
12 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreElko District Office4 MILES S OF JACKPOT
6 July 2007Natural60,490 acresElko District OfficeWEST BASIN
31 July 2003Smoking1.5 acresIdaho Falls DistrictRABBIT SP
24 July 2018Natural14 acresIdaho Falls DistrictTWIN SPRINGS
10 July 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictJACKPOT
1 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictHWY 93 MM2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko 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
Jackpot2.6 miles10
Delaplain3.1 miles10
San Jacinto7.5 miles10
Contact15.4 miles11
Riverside (historical)19.4 miles9
Henry21.6 miles9
O'Neil (historical)24.2 miles13
Delano (historical)28.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 857812. 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.