Riverlea, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Columbus City. It lies in ZIP code area 43085. It stands on Rush Run. The Survey maps it on the Northwest Columbus quadrangle. 599 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 787 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRiverlea grew from 545 to 599 between 2010 and 2020. 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. 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 545 | |
| 2020 | 599 | +54 (+10%) |
Then and now
1901 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1901 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
17 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Columbus city, in the words of 1858.
Beginnings Of Ohio
The Mound Builders and Indians - First White Settlements and Struggle for Possession - Indian Village at the Forks of the Scioto Attacked by Crawford and Dispersed - The Ohio Company, the Scioto Company and Symmes Purchase - Indian Power Broken and British Hopes Blasted - First Surveys - Topography, Geology and Soil of Franklin County.
In the 1858 county history
895,918 words on this townshipThe county history of 1858 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Columbus City covers the township.
Read the chapter on Columbus City - 895,918 words.
Fires nearby
1 since 2011The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Riverlea between 2011 and 2011, burning about 0 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 10,249 shownMuseums hold 10,249 specimens collected within 10 miles of Riverlea between 1804 and 1975: 8,254 Animalia, 1,274 Fungi, 573 Plantae, 117 Chromista, 30 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 19 V 1938 in original publication, Knull, =, ? and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cintractia sorghi (Sorokn) De Toni | 1900 | Tyler, F.J.; O. E. Jennings | Columbus |
![]() | Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench | 1900 | Jennings, O.E. | Columbus, Ohio. |
![]() | Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana | 1804 | Dr. Paddock | Worthington |
![]() | Platanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl. | 1805 | J. R. Paddock | Worthington |
![]() | Carex comosa Boott | 1809 | Collector unknown | Worthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.] |
![]() | Hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 | 1814 | not recorded | Columbus Ohio, Franklin, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Callimome strobiloides Huber, 1927 | 1821 | C. Huber | Columbus |
![]() | Solidago riddellii Frank | 1832 | W. A. Kellerman | A few miles N of Columbus. |
![]() | Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd. | 1834 | Anonymous | Columbus. |
![]() | Anomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor | 1837 | W. S. Sullivant | Near Columbus |
![]() | Acris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 1947 | 1897 | not recorded | No Further Locality Data |
| Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel | 1897 | Clevenger, J. F. | Columbus |
All 10,249 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
14 since 2012The National Weather Service names Riverlea in 14 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverlea | $10,000 | Numerous trees were downed on Stafford and Clearview Avenues due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverlea | $8,000 | A tree fell onto a house, damaging some windows, gutters, and an air conditioning unit. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverlea | $3,000 | Worthington Galena Road was closed due to trees down between Crandall and Schrock Roads. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverlea | $3,000 | Several trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverlea | $3,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| November 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverlea | $2,000 | A few trees were downed across the northwest side of Worthington. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverlea | $2,000 | Tree branches were downed and a tree was split in half near Worthington due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Riverlea | $1,000 | Athletic fields and a pavilion were flooded at Thomas Worthington High School. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverlea | $1,000 | A tree and a few tree limbs were downed. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverlea | $1,000 | Several large limbs downed due to thunderstorm winds near SR 161 and US 23. |
| August 2021 | Flood | Riverlea | - | High water was reported on State Route 161 in spots between New Albany and Worthington. |
| September 2013 | Hail | Riverlea | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Riverlea | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Riverlea | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worthington | 0.9 miles | 17 | |
| Linworth | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Olentangy | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Northwoods | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Flint | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Worthington Hills | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Olentangy High Bluffs | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Mount Air | 3.5 miles | 16 |
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 Riverlea | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2324729 | The 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 1056491. 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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.



























