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Riverton, Oregon

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Coquille census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97423. It stands on Woolsey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Riverton quadrangle. 150 people lived here at the 1940 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Riverton within Coos County

Population over time

2 figures

Riverton fell from 200 to 150 between 1915 and 1940. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
1915200
1940150

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Riverton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 381 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use28
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationLITTLE FISHTRAP
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use347 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersNORTH BANK LANE MM8
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationSEVENMILE CREEK
6 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationBEAVER SLOUGH
5 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersNORTH BANK RD
30 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationBEAVER CREEK
27 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMM 6 HWY 42S
21 September 2012Smokingunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHWY 42S MILEPOST 14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Riverton: 9 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Chromium, Gold. 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
Lane Extension MineGold, PGEOccurrence
Section 27 Chromite OccurrenceChromiumOccurrence
Section 27 Chromium OccurenceChromiumOccurrenceFloat
Fat Elk SiteStonePast Producer
Fat Elk SiteStoneProducer
Messerle SiteStonePast Producer
Messerle SiteStoneProducer
Albertson SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Albertson SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Coquille River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Coos 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
Lampa (historical)3.0 miles21
Leneve3.4 miles21
Cedar Point3.6 miles19
Parkersburg3.7 miles21
Randolph4.4 miles21
Coquille4.8 miles19
Prosper5.3 miles21
Winterville5.5 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 RivertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7338669The 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 1136691. 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.