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Riverside, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kirkwood town. It lies in ZIP code area 13795. It stands on Snake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Binghamton East quadrangle.

Riverside within Broome County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Riverside, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Riverside, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

77 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 2001 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2017Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2017Smoking5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection121 SUSQUEHANNA
16 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome 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 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Conklin Gravel BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Broome 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
Corbettsville1.5 miles24
Blatchley1.9 miles16
Conklin Station2.1 miles24
Conklin2.8 miles24
Kirkwood2.9 miles24
Conklin Center4.1 miles24
Lester4.2 miles16
Langdon4.5 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 962568. 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.