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Riviera Beach, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Riviera census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78379. It sits by Neubauer Rocks. The Survey maps it on the Riviera Beach quadrangle.

Riviera Beach within Kleberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Riviera Beach between 2001 and 2019, burning about 521 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY BALE/GRASS FIRE
2 September 2013Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLA PARRA BEACH HOUSE
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKLEBERG COUNTY BEACH FIRE
18 July 2001Arson/incendiarism300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 4
11 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKLEBERG COUNTY FIRE
11 April 2018Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service771
26 February 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCALEB ROACH CONTROL BURN
11 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIVIERA BEACH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kleberg County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riviera Beach in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2014Thunderstorm WindRiviera Beach$2,000A tree was blown down on to a car near the King's Inn Restaurant in Loyola Beach.
June 2025Flash FloodRiviera Beach-Numerous sites at Riviera Beach Trailer Park are flooding due to heavy rain.
June 2025FloodRiviera Beach-Roads are starting to flood throughout the area.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindRiviera Beach-TCOON site at Baffin Bay measured a gust to 77 mph.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Riviera Beach-Kleberg County official reported tornado near Farm to Market Road 771 east of Riviera.|Photo sent to the office confirmed the tornado report.
August 1999Flash FloodRiviera Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kleberg 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
Loyola Beach3.4 miles12
Vattman5.1 miles12
Vattmannville5.4 miles9
Riviera7.9 miles9
El Martillo12.1 miles10
Ricardo13.4 miles9
Ojo de Angua17.8 miles10
Kingsville18.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2033966. 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.