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Riverside, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Conconully-Riverside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98849. It stands on Johnson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Riverside quadrangle. 329 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Riverside within Okanogan County

Population over time

2 figures

Riverside grew from 280 to 329 between 2010 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
2010280
2020329+49 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 184,089 acres in total. 60 started naturally. None 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
Natural60
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Other causes3
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCONCONULLY HIGHWAY
6 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPHARR OUT WAY
6 September 2003Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColville AgencyWANNACUT CREEK II
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColville AgencyANNOCOTT CREEK
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWILDLIFE STRIKE
30 September 2012Other causes5.1 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPOISON LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okanogan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 29 occurrences, 10 past producers, 7 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Dolomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Chickamum ClaimCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Johnson CreekChromium, Nickel, IronPast ProducerChromite
Johnson Creek ProspectChromium, Nickel, IronOccurrence
RiversideStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tunk CreekFeldspar, MicaUnknown
Wagonroad CouleeNickelOccurrenceSerpentine
Johnson CreekTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceTalc
Johnson CreekTalc-SoapstoneUnknown
RiversidePlatinumOccurrenceStream Placer
RiversideMicaUnknown

Every working recorded in Okanogan County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverside in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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
January 2023FloodRiverside$500Water was over roadway along the Riverside Eastriverside Road.
June 2013Heavy RainRiverside-Two low-centroid thunderstorms, each producing tropical like downpours, moved through Riverside between 1300 PDT and 1530 PDT. The intense rainfall caused water, mud, and minor debris to briefly flood an intersection in town. The nearest observation site, Omak ASOS, recorded 0.76 over a 134 minute period with the most intense rainfall occurring within the second cell. This cell delivered 0.45 of the total rainfall in a span of 28 minutes.
August 2006HailRiverside-no account filed
August 2006HailRiverside-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Okanogan 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
Cherokee4.1 miles9
Keystone4.3 miles11
North Omak5.1 miles9
Barker5.3 miles11
Epley (historical)6.2 miles12
Omak6.4 miles12
Brown Lake8.3 miles11
Synarep9.4 miles11

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 Q1513833The 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 1531498. 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.