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Riverside, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Arlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98223. The Survey maps it on the Lake Stevens quadrangle.

Riverside within Snohomish County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1992 and 2019, burning about 102 acres in total. 2 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 2003Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPAINTBALL
4 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCANYON DR
24 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCANYON CREEK
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters112TH ST
14 September 1998Smoking3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCADMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 16 past producers, 8 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
BlomquistCopper, Gold, SilverProspect
Blomquist MineSilver, Copper, GoldOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Malachite
Fry PropertyCopper, ZincUnknown
Granco QuarryStone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haun ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
Kings LakeDiatomiteOccurrence
WaysideSilver, Lead, Zinc, Vanadium, Copper, GoldOccurrence
WaysideCopper, Zinc, Vanadium, Silver, Lead, GoldPast Producer
Wayside MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, VanadiumPast ProducerBornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Wayside PitStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Snohomish 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
Granite Falls2.7 miles17
Jordan3.0 miles17
Sobey3.2 miles18
Lochsloy4.6 miles18
Sisco Heights5.0 miles18
Lake Bosworth5.1 miles17
Getchell5.8 miles18
Hyland6.2 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q49363832The 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 1511262. 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.