Riverside, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Gratiot town. It lies in ZIP code area 53541. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Apple River quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Riverside within Lafayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1902 USGS Mineral Point quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Apple River quadrangle1:24000
1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Dubuque North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

28,387 words on this township

History of Lafayette County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages ... Its War Record, Biographical Sketches ... the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution, and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Gratiot Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

PETJER PAUIiSOlV, manufacturer of boots and shoes, Riverside; P. 0. Gratiot; born in Norway, April 1, 1844 ; came to America in 1872, and was in Chicago one year and a half working at his trade, and then a short time in the foundry ; he came to Wisconsin, in 1873, to Wiota, and worked at his trade, then went to Warren, 111. ; then to Riverside in 1875. His wife, Julia Gilbertson, was born in Norway in 1853 ; came to America in 1870 ; was married in 1875 ; they have had three children - Gilbert, born Feb. 11, 1876 ; Paulina, born Feb. 25, 1878 ; Revart, born May 26, 1880. In pdlitics, Republican; in religion, Lutheran.

Passage source: History of Lafayette County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages ... Its War Record, Biographical Sketches ... the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution, and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1881.

S. T. WOOL WORTH, retired merchant, P. 0. Gratiot; born in Niagara Co., N. Y., in 1816 ; came to Chicago in 1832, and in the hardware and tin business; 1870, came to Wisconsin ; was in business at Riverside, and, not being able to attend to it, sold out. Enlisted in the 8th 111. V. C., Company F, in 1861, and wounded at Antietam, in the arm, and he is now a pensioner ; discharged in 1862. His second wife, Mary A. Allison, was born in Bishop Thorp, Yorkshire, England, Sept. 30, 1825, and married Aug. 11, 1848, and had two children - William, a tinner in Gratiot; Carrie, now Mrs. Porter, near home. Wife died Nov. 14, 1865. Third wife was Rachel Elmer. Fourth wife, Mary A. Gondnough, was born in Massachusetts in 1817. Married in 1869. In politics, Republican. In religion, Liberal. His wife, Presbyterian. Has been School Director, Overseer of the Highway, once President of the Village of Riverside. He enlisted in the 1st 111. V. I. in the Mexican war, wounded several times, and in the Black Hawk war; assisted in the moving of the Indians from this county ; called out on the New York State line to keep the patriots from crossing on the Island.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Gratiot Town.

Fires near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 2019 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
24 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019010
19 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019009
3 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20062

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Tiffany Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Opie Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Scott Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Unnamed Prospect Along Copper Cre	Copper	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect Along Copper Cre	Copper	Occurrence
Appell Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Munson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Oppie Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette 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
Gratiot	1.0 miles	12
Red Rock	3.6 miles	12
Wiota	4.7 miles	14
Dunbarton	6.3 miles	13
Avon	7.5 miles	12
South Wayne	7.8 miles	13
Lamont	7.9 miles	14
Darlington	8.0 miles	12

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 Q7338384	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 1577792. 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.