Riovista, Wyoming

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Green River North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82935. It lies near Greasewood Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Peru quadrangle.

Riovista within Sweetwater County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Peru quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

59 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Riovista between 1995 and 2020, burning about 429 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Fireworks	7
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	50 acres	Sweetwater County	MM76
19 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Sweetwater County	MCKINNON FIRE
14 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sweetwater County	MM 82
11 September 2009	Fireworks	2.5 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	CEMETERY
4 August 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Sweetwater County	MM1 HARBORLITE
3 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sweetwater County	MM67
25 August 2017	Smoking	1.0 acres	Sweetwater County	SHOOTING RANGE
21 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater 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 Riovista: 9 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sodium, Sodium Carbonate, Silica. 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	Recorded
Diamond Alkali Co., Butler Well No. 1	Sodium	Prospect	Trona
State Highway Dept	Silica	Producer
Western Alkali Company wells	Sodium Carbonate	Past Producer	Trona
Acme Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Green River Pit & Plant Layos	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Department Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Department Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sweetwater 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
James Town	0.3 miles	9
Green River	3.0 miles	10
Bryan	9.1 miles	9
Kanda	9.1 miles	8
Purple Sage	10.0 miles	8
Clearview Acres	12.7 miles	8
North Rock Springs	14.5 miles	9
Blairtown	15.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1593476. 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.