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Riverside, Wyoming

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Saratoga census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82325. It stands on Badger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Encampment quadrangle. 66 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,142 feet above sea level.

Riverside within Carbon 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 1 record

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

Population over time

3 figures

Riverside grew from 49 to 66 between 1910 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
191049
201052
202066+14 (+27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 2003 and 2020, burning about 191 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
6 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCarbon CountyBALER FIRE
4 August 2010Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficePETERSEN
4 August 2003Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
24 August 2017Natural1.0 acresCarbon CountyROMIOS RANCH
20 August 2017Other causes140 acresRawlins Field OfficeENCAMPMENT RIVER
31 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCarbon CountyELK HOLLOW FIRE
30 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCarbon CountyMILEPOST 104
30 June 2006Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandEAST WOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Riverside: 7 past producers, 5 prospects, 5 occurrences, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Copper, Kyanite, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carlton, Big Chief, Pinyon and Pardelco ClaimsKyanite, Vermiculite, MicaPast ProducerKyanite
Encampment area (unnamed)GarnetOccurrence
Paine DepositVermiculite, MicaPast ProducerSericite, Vermiculite
Tennant PropertyCopper, Lead, Silver, GoldProspectGold, Lead, Silver, Copper
UnknownAsbestosOccurrence
UnknownTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Unknown (Mineral Technology Corp)FeldsparPast Producer
Toothacher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wood Mountain CrushingSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pinyon ClaimsKyaniteProspect

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

5 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverside in 5 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRiverside-Mesonet station KSKL Skyline along WY-230.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindRiverside-WYDOT mesonet station Skyline (KSKL) along WY Highway 230 measured wind gust 12 miles east-southeast of Encampment.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindRiverside-Skyline sensor in Skyline measured the reported wind gust. A review of available lightning data showed no lightning associated with the parent cell that produced these winds.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRiverside-Wyoming Department of Transportation site at Skyline (KSKL) measured the reported wind speed.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindRiverside-WYDOT mesonet station KSKL - Skyline reported wind gust along WY 230.

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Encampment0.8 miles16
Elwood (historical)6.1 miles17
Battle (historical)11.6 miles17
Rambler (historical)12.7 miles16
Rudefeha (historical)15.6 miles16
Tenmile15.9 miles16
Ryan Park16.0 miles16
Saratoga16.5 miles13

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 RiversideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1028057The 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 1593486. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.