Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Riverview, Massachusetts

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Gloucester City. It lies in ZIP code area 01930. It stands on Sunset Hill. The Survey maps it on the Gloucester OE N quadrangle.

Riverview within Essex County

Then and now

1886 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Riverview, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Riverview, surveyed 1886

Topographic sheets covering this place

28 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 nearby

28 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Riverview between 2015 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony	10
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
8 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
24 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
26 July 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named
21 July 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	GLOUCESTER
18 July 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	GLOUCESTER
3 June 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,333 shown

Museums hold 5,333 specimens collected within 10 miles of Riverview between 1817 and 1975: 1,916 Animalia, 1,628 Plantae, 1,170 Fungi, 334 Chromista, 172 Unrecorded, 93 Protozoa, 20 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A H HIGGINSON, A Perlmutter, A. A. Eaton 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Caloplaca murorum Th.Fr.	1900	Clara E. Cummings
Coluber constrictor constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1817	not recorded	Loblolly Cove, Cape Ann
Lecanora tartarea (L.) Ach.	1839	E. Tuckerman	Manchester
Ochrolechia yasudae Vainio	1839	Tuckerman, E.	[USA] Manchester, Massachusetts.
Euphorbia polygonifolia L.	1840	Wolle, J.	Ipswich
Iva frutescens L.	1840	Oakes	ad Ipswich
Potentilla anserina L.	1840	Wolle, J.	Ipswich
Sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop.	1840	Oakes	Ipswich
Splachnum ampullaceum Hedw.	1843	A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant	Manchester
Ceramium rubrum C.Agardh	1847	N. Pike	Cape Ann
Cystoclonium purpurascens (Hudson) Kützing	1848	E. Hodges
Ectocarpus Lyngbye, 1819	1848	E. Hodges

All 5,333 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Riverview: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Atwater Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Manchester Sand and Stone Co. Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Johnson Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Rockport Quarries Inc	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Town of Rockport	Granite	Past Producer	Granite
Town of Rockport Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
John R Morse	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mc Niff-Dominic Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mcniff Co Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Morse Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms nearby

2 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Riverview in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2017: 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
October 2017	Flood	Riverview	-	Washington Street in Gloucester flooded near Captain Hooks restaurant. A CoCoRaHS observer in Gloucester measured a Storm Total Rainfall of 3.43 inches.
July 2013	Flood	Riverview	-	At least one foot of water flooded Route 128 near the Sudbay's Automotive Center. All lanes were flooded except for the breakdown lane, where cars were still able to get through.

Every storm recorded in Essex 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Riverdale	0.4 miles	28
Riverview Landing	0.5 miles	28
Riverdale Station	0.8 miles	28
Dogtown Commons	0.9 miles	28
Gloucester	1.5 miles	27
Wingaersheek (historical)	1.6 miles	28
Annisquam	1.8 miles	28
Five Pound Island	2.0 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 615324. 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.

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.