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Riverside, Oregon

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Juntura census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97917. It stands on South Fork Malheur River. The Survey maps it on the Warm Springs Reservoir quadrangle. It stands 3,343 feet above sea level.

Riverside within Malheur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1994 and 2014, burning about 1,302 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 September 1994Natural108 acresBurns DistrictWINNEMUCCA
15 September 2002Naturalunder an acreVale DistrictBEACHES
5 August 2007Natural59 acresBurns DistrictRIVERSIDE
3 August 2000Natural1.0 acresBurns DistrictOVER KILL
26 July 2014Naturalunder an acreVale DistrictSHEEP ROCK
21 July 1997Natural197 acresBurns DistrictWINNEMUCA
20 July 2002Natural884 acresVale DistrictSHEEP ROCK
18 July 2000Naturalunder an acreVale DistrictRIVERSIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Malheur County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
BlaylockStonePast Producer
Blaylock Community PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lower Chapman ReserviorSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lower Chapman ReservoirSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Malheur County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverside in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 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 2006Thunderstorm WindRiverside-Red Butte RAWS

Every storm recorded in Malheur 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
Creston8.4 miles8
Juntura14.6 miles8
Crowley22.2 miles6
Bohna (historical)24.2 miles9
Beulah25.2 miles10
Cord (historical)28.8 miles8
Harper36.6 miles8
Westfall39.2 miles8

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 Q7338386The 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 1136689. 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.