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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.

Riverlea within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Riverlea 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.

YearPeople Change
2010545
2020599+54 (+10%)

Then and now

1901 to 1995

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Riverlea, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Riverlea, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Columbus city, in the words of 1858.

1858, Columbus City

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.

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In the 1858 county history

895,918 words on this township

The 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 2011

The 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/undetermined1

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
26 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 10,249 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Cintractia sorghi (Sorokn) De ToniCintractia sorghi (Sorokn) De Toni1900Tyler, F.J.; O. E. JenningsColumbus
Specimen of Sorghum bicolor (L.) MoenchSorghum bicolor (L.) Moench1900Jennings, O.E.Columbus, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Juniperus virginiana, not of this specimenJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana1804Dr. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Platanthera psycodes, not of this specimenPlatanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.1805J. R. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1809Collector unknownWorthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Hirundo Linnaeus, not of this specimenHirundo Linnaeus, 17581814not recordedColumbus Ohio, Franklin, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Callimome strobiloides, not of this specimenCallimome strobiloides Huber, 19271821C. HuberColumbus
A photograph of the species Solidago riddellii, not of this specimenSolidago riddellii Frank1832W. A. KellermanA few miles N of Columbus.
A photograph of the species Carex lupulina, not of this specimenCarex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.1834AnonymousColumbus.
A photograph of the species Anomodon viticulosus, not of this specimenAnomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor1837W. S. SullivantNear Columbus
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 19471897not recordedNo Further Locality Data
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897Clevenger, J. F.Columbus

All 10,249 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

14 since 2012

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012Thunderstorm WindRiverlea$10,000Numerous trees were downed on Stafford and Clearview Avenues due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindRiverlea$8,000A tree fell onto a house, damaging some windows, gutters, and an air conditioning unit.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindRiverlea$3,000Worthington Galena Road was closed due to trees down between Crandall and Schrock Roads.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindRiverlea$3,000Several trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindRiverlea$3,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindRiverlea$2,000A few trees were downed across the northwest side of Worthington.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindRiverlea$2,000Tree branches were downed and a tree was split in half near Worthington due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2020FloodRiverlea$1,000Athletic fields and a pavilion were flooded at Thomas Worthington High School.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRiverlea$1,000A tree and a few tree limbs were downed.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindRiverlea$1,000Several large limbs downed due to thunderstorm winds near SR 161 and US 23.
August 2021FloodRiverlea-High water was reported on State Route 161 in spots between New Albany and Worthington.
September 2013HailRiverlea-no account filed
July 2012HailRiverlea-no account filed
August 2012HailRiverlea-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Worthington0.9 miles17
Linworth1.4 miles17
Olentangy1.7 miles17
Northwoods3.0 miles16
Flint3.3 miles16
Worthington Hills3.4 miles16
Olentangy High Bluffs3.5 miles16
Mount Air3.5 miles16

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 RiverleaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2324729The 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.