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Riverside, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Stanton town. It lies in ZIP code area 54017. The Survey maps it on the New Richmond South quadrangle.

Riverside within St. Croix 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 within a mile 9 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

24 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 2012 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
24 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20194
13 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources161
4 July 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources146
4 July 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSt. Croix Wetland Management DistrictFIREWORKS
5 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources114
27 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources112
16 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources132
28 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources106

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Croix County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Hatfield Lake Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Apple River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Apple River Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
County G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dale Swenson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Goose Pond Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johannesburg Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lavelle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
New Richmond PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
New Richmond Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Croix 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
New Richmond0.9 miles14
Wall Street Village3.7 miles14
Stanton4.4 miles12
Jewett4.4 miles12
Johannesburg4.9 miles14
Star Prairie5.1 miles14
Huntington5.2 miles14
Erin Corner5.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2611825. 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.