Riverside, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1890 1990

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.

• 1890 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1941 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Brattleboro quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:31680
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1975 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Keene quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1990 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:25000
• 1990 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:25000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 2017 and 2020, burning about 21 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Factory Village (historical)
• Grounts Corner
• Lake Pleasant
• Millers Falls
• Turners Falls
• Cheapside

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Museums hold 2,792 specimens collected within 10 miles of Riverside between 1822 and 1975: 1,034 Plantae, 933 Animalia, 697 Fungi, 114 Unrecorded, 13 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Pease, A. Clark, A. Cronquist 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
	Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt	1896	Leonard, F.E.	Northfield, Mass.
	Ptilidium pulcherrimum (Weber) Hampe	1822	Ebenezer Emmons
	Cinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb.	1847	Russell
	unnamed (fossil)	1867	Othniel C. Marsh	black sh, [property of T.M. Stoughton, 1871 Beers County map, previously owned by Dr. Roswell Field], S side of Connecticut River, Horse Race, Montague
	Carex pedunculata Muhl. ex Willd.	1892	J. R. Churchill	Mount Toby
	Carex prasina Wahlenb.	1892	J. R. Churchill	Montague
	Carex torta Boott	1892	J. R. Churchill	Montague
	Hedeoma pulegioides (L.) Pers.	1892	not recorded	Mt. Toby
	Rhexia virginica L.	1892	not recorded	Millers Falls
	Spiranthes gracilis (Bigelow) L.C.Beck	1892	not recorded	Mt. Toby
	Spiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb.	1894	Swinerton, J.R.	Greenfield
	Asplenium ruta-muraria L.	1895	A. F. Beals	Sugar loaf Mountain, (north), South Deerfield

All 2,792 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite, Copper, Iron, Copper, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Franklin County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 608930. 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.

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.