Riverview, Wisconsin

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Superior town. It lies in ZIP code area 54880. It stands on Little Pokegama River. The Survey maps it on the West Duluth quadrangle.

Riverview within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1915 USGS Superior quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Superior quadrangle1:62500
1917 USGS Superior quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Superior quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS West Duluth quadrangle1:24000, 9 printings
1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS West Duluth quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Riverview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 181 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	58
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Debris and open burning	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	12
Recreation and ceremony	7
Fireworks	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	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 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Riverview: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Zenith Dredge Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Albany Crushing Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Albany Crushing Plant Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Mclean Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Oliver Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Oliver	1.4 miles	20
Billings Park	4.3 miles	16
Superior Village	4.5 miles	16
South Superior	4.8 miles	16
Superior	5.3 miles	16
Boylston Junction	5.5 miles	12
Park Place Homes	6.0 miles	16
Boylston	6.2 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577793. 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.