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Riverside, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lancaster census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29720. It stands on Sandy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Van Wyck quadrangle.

Riverside within Lancaster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 printed 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 near this place

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 294 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural4
Other causes2

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
6 September 2013Other causesunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverside in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2023Thunderstorm WindRiverside-Lancaster County dispatch reported trees down at Riverside Road and University Drive. Time estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Fosters Crossroads1.1 miles13
Caskey1.8 miles14
Quail Haven1.9 miles13
Cedar Terrace2.3 miles14
Arrowood Estates2.7 miles13
Shiloh2.7 miles13
Gregwood3.4 miles14
Westwood4.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1250393. 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.

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.