Riverdale Georgia Map

About Riverdale, Georgia

Riverdale is a locality in Dougherty County, Georgia, United States. It has a population of 15,129. The population density is 1322.2 people per km². Riverdale is located at 33.5639°N, 84.4110°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Riverdale is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 31701, 30274.

Riverdale stretches across the red-clay piedmont, where the land holds the heat of the afternoon long after the sun has begun its descent. It lies 4.5 miles south of Albany, GA (from Albany, GA: bearing 182°T), and is situated 3.9 miles northwest of Putney. The Flint River carves a quiet, persistent path through the local terrain, its waters moving with a gravity that defines the low-lying hollows and the encroaching thickets of longleaf pine. Within the borders of the Boy Scout Tract, the earth retains a damp, shadowed stillness, offering a refuge where the sprawl of the modern world thins into dense undergrowth. On the distant horizon, the faint, jagged silhouette of Rattlesnake Ridge marks the limit of the view, a reminder of the rugged geological shifts that sit far beyond these gentle, clay-heavy plains.

Riverdale evolved from a modest rail stop into a hub of commerce and transit, its economic pulse quickened by the steady hum of nearby aviation infrastructure and the movement of goods through the corridors of the South. The legacy of the land is measured in the quiet transformation of fields into neighborhoods, yet the character of the place remains tied to the cycles of the seasons and the deep, iron-rich soil that once sustained the rhythm of regional agriculture. Rawls Pond sits five miles away, a silent mirror in the landscape that reflects the changing light of a sky often bruised with the purple and gold of summer storms. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a workday commute, punctuated by the persistent industry of people who have built their lives in the shadow of the transit routes that connect the locality to the wider world.

About This Riverdale Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Riverdale, Georgia. Coordinates: 33.563869, -84.410959. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Riverdale includes the ZIP code (31701, 30274), telephone area code (229, 404, 470, 678), county seat of Dougherty County (Albany), and school district assignment (Clayton County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.