BlockBefore

Riverside, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Riverside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77320. It stands on Harmon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Riverside quadrangle. 522 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 187 feet above sea level.

Riverside within Walker County

On record in Riverside

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Riverside grew from 425 to 522 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000425
2010510+85 (+20%)
2020522+12 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

108 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1993 and 2020, burning about 571 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALKER 13:41
8 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8068
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service173
30 September 2006Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Bentonite. 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
Milwhite Company Abandoned PitBentonitePast Producer
Jordan and Hutchinson OperationClayProducer
Riverside PlantClayProducer
Stutts Equipment Co OperationClayProducer
UnknownClayProducer

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverside in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
January 1999Tornado (F0)Riverside1 hurt, $10,000Brief tornado touchdown in the Hickory Hills subdivision caused barn damage and one unconfirmed injury.
March 2000HailRiverside$25,000no account filed
January 2020Thunderstorm WindRiverside$16,000A tin roof was removed off a shed on Martha Lane.
April 2004HailRiverside$15,000Golfball-size hail north of FM 230.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindRiverside$15,000Newspaper reported wind damage to a mobile home.
May 2005HailRiverside$12,000no account filed
March 2017Thunderstorm WindRiverside$5,000Trees were downed near the intersection of FM 980 and Sunrise Loop.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindRiverside$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in and around Riverside.
July 2002HailRiverside$5,000Hail across the northern part of the entire county.
May 1994HailRiverside$5,000no account filed
May 2012HailRiverside$3,000Golf ball-size hail was reported in the town of Riverside.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindRiverside$3,000Tree down.
April 1998HailRiverside$3,000no account filed
April 1995HailRiverside$2,000Riverside police reported golf ball size hail.
April 2020HailRiverside-Golf ball sized hail was reported.
May 2020HailRiverside-There was a mix of 1/2 inch to golf ball sized hail.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindRiverside-Numerous trees were downed with some onto homes.
April 2010HailRiverside-Penny sized hail was observed on the northwest end of Lake Livingston.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindRiverside-Trees were reported down across local roads.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Gospel Hill3.0 miles12
Carolina4.1 miles13
Arizona5.5 miles13
Dodge7.4 miles13
Harmony9.1 miles13
Kittrell9.2 miles12
Pine Prairie9.5 miles13
Mount Morian9.9 miles13

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 RiversideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981760The 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 1383164. 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.