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Riverside Manor, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Virgil town. It lies in ZIP code area 13803. It stands on Gridley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marathon quadrangle.

Riverside Manor within Cortland County

Then and now

1903 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 89 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 Manor, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Riverside Manor, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

51 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Riverside Manor between 1993 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2001Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
28 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2002Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
15 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cortland 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 Manor: 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
Summerville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cortland 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
Messengerville0.4 miles22
East Virgil1.1 miles22
Galatia2.5 miles22
Freetown Corners2.9 miles23
Lapeer3.8 miles22
Marathon4.4 miles22
Hunts Corners5.1 miles22
Texas Valley5.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122568432The 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 2514387. 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.