Riverside, South Dakota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hanson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57301. It lies near Medicine Butte (historical). The Survey maps it on the Riverside quadrangle.

Riverside within Hanson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1899 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

52 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1998 and 2020, burning about 262 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined	21
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Fireworks	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
5 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TOWER FIRE
5 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mitchell Fire Department	NORM MAESCHEN
12 September 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Mitchell Fire Department	CIG. BUTT
3 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RIVERSIDE FIRE
24 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
4 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
4 July 2003	Fireworks	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hanson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 2 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quarry Chalk	Limestone, General	Unknown
Buchman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Butts Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Graham Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Mac Loon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Morrison Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hanson County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverside in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 18 flood, 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Riverside	$10,000	A tornado damaged a farmstead, blowing the roof off a gust house. The tornado also caused tree damage. The tornado crossed into eastern Davison County before dissipating.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Riverside	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts damaged shingles on several homes. At one farmstead, the TV antenna was destroyed and an ash tree was uprooted onto the house. Five healthy spruce trees were uprooted and several deciduous trees snapped at another farm, where the roof was also lost off a horse shelter. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 2012	Flood	Riverside	-	Heavy rain caused minor flooding of the James River, affecting some farmland and roads.
May 2011	Flood	Riverside	-	Moderate to major flooding of the James River, ongoing since the snowmelt season in March, continued through May but slowly subsided. Farmland and other lowlands near the river remained flooded. With the river subsiding slowly, no new flooding was reported, although some additional road damage became apparent as water slowly receded.
June 2011	Flood	Riverside	-	Moderate to major flooding of the James River, ongoing since the snowmelt season in March, continued through June. Farmland and other lowlands near the river remained flooded, with the water level first falling slowly, then rising due to runoff from heavy rain. The highest water levels were generally at the end of the month, though the river remained below the peak levels of May.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Riverside	-	Heavy rainfall estimated at 3 inches falling on saturated ground caused flash flooding of numerous fields and some roads.
August 2011	Flood	Riverside	-	Moderate to major flooding of the James River, ongoing since the snowmelt season in March, continued into early August, with the flooding slowly abating through the month. Flooding of farmland and other lowlands near the river slowly abated.
July 2011	Flood	Riverside	-	Moderate to major flooding of the James River, ongoing since the snowmelt season in March, continued through July. Farmland and other lowlands near the river remained flooded, with the water level varying slightly up and down due to sporadic heavy rainfall.
March 2010	Flood	Riverside	-	Melting of a heavy winter snowpack caused flooding of the James River which became major during the middle and late part of the month. Numerous fields and roads were flooded.
April 2010	Flood	Riverside	-	Flooding of the James River continued from March through all of April. The river fell slowly during the month, with no new flooding, but farmland and some roads remained flooded.
May 2010	Flood	Riverside	-	Flooding of the James River continued from March and April through all of May. The river fell very slowly, with some farmland and roads remaining flooded.
September 2010	Flood	Riverside	-	Heavy rain caused minor flooding along the James River, with mainly unfarmed lowlands affected.
June 2010	Flood	Riverside	-	Moderate to major flooding of the James River was observed for most of the month. The river, which has been slowly falling before June, rose again due to heavy rain, and the number of fields and roads flooded increased again.
July 2010	Flood	Riverside	-	Moderate to major flooding along the James River continued, with numerous fields and some roads remaining covered. The river rose near the end of the month, when some of the heaviest rain fell, but remained below its peak crest from earlier in the year.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Riverside	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. The winds also caused an unknown amount of damage to corn crops in the area.
August 2010	Flood	Riverside	-	Moderate to major flooding along the James River continued into the start of August. The river was at its highest levels during the first few days of the month, although it remained below its peak spring levels. The river then fell slowly. Flooding of fields and some roads slowly abated.
July 2009	Flood	Riverside	-	Minor to moderate flooding along the James River continued from June. The river fell slowly at the start and end of the month, but rose for a while in mid July due to heavy rains. The flooding continued to affect farmland and pastureland near the river, with flooding of some low lying roads also continuing.
June 2009	Flood	Riverside	-	Moderate flooding along the James River decreased very slowly during June, although the river remained above flood stage at the end of the month. The highest stages were at the start of the month. The lingering flooding affected farmland and pastureland near the river, while flooding of low lying roads slowly decreased.
April 2009	Flood	Riverside	-	Moderate to major flooding continued along the James River. The river rose during all of April, reaching its highest level at the end of the month. Increasing numbers of roads were closed, and pastureland and farmland along the river was flooded.
May 2009	Flood	Riverside	-	Moderate to major flooding continued along the James River. The river crested early in the month, then began a very slow fall. Several roads remained closed, and pastureland and farmland along the river remained flooded.
August 2009	Flood	Riverside	-	Lingering minor James River flooding of farmland and pastureland ended by August 17th.
June 2008	Flood	Riverside	-	Heavy rain caused minor flooding of the James River, affecting farmland near the shores.
May 2007	Hail	Riverside	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Riverside	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Riverside	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Riverside	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hanson 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
Bard (historical)	2.9 miles	12
Millbrook Colony	5.3 miles	12
Plano	5.9 miles	12
Fulton	6.6 miles	12
Alexandria	10.0 miles	12
Rockport Colony	11.3 miles	11
Farmer	13.8 miles	11
Maywood (historical)	14.4 miles	11

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 Riverside	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20710517	The 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 1261135. 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.

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.