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

Riviera Park, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pee Pee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45690. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Piketon quadrangle.

Riviera Park within Pike County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Riviera Park, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Riviera Park, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

60 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Riviera Park between 2007 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
23 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2019Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15226
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15221
19 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2019Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15213
8 June 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15742
3 May 2015Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1331

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,649 shown

Museums hold 1,649 specimens collected within 10 miles of Riviera Park between 1889 and 1975: 1,566 Animalia, 54 Plantae, 27 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Adams, S., Allen, E. (Ed), B. W. Evermann 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 Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.1896F.L. StevensColumbus
Specimen of Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)1909not recordedScioto River, Piketon
Specimen of Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 18201909not recordedPiketon, Scioto River
A photograph of the species Asterella tenella, not of this specimenAsterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv.1889C. J. HerrickWaverly
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 18981889not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hybognathus nuchalis, not of this specimenHybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 18551894Bean & B. EvermannScioto Creek, Coopersville, New York
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181894B. W. EvermannCooperville; Scioto Cr
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Astragalinus Cabanis, not of this specimenAstragalinus Cabanis, 18511898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA

All 1,649 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Riviera Park: 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
A & S Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Seal Builders S & G Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Seal Builders Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Lake View Heights0.5 miles15
Forest Hills0.9 miles15
Pirates Cove1.0 miles15
Waverly Gables1.3 miles15
Daleyville1.7 miles15
Waverly Place2.2 miles13
Green Acres2.3 miles13
Piketon2.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049124. 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.