[7] As of the census[9] of 2010, there were 934 people, 402 households, and 261 families living in the town.

29.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

30.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

That's also the location where he saved his family from an attack by Indians in 1778, based on a fevered dream he had, while recuperating from an illness at the fort.

[10] Now known as the Morgan-Gold House, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

[11] Rivesville was platted in 1837, and named after William Cabell Rives.

This was immediately before the development of large-scale coal mining in the area and the subsequent population growth.

[13] In the early 20th century, Rivesville was at the junction between the Pawpaw branch of the B&O Railroad and the Buckhannon & Northern Railroad, a branch of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie a predecessor that was incorporated into the Monongahela Railway formed in 1915.

[16] It has 37 teachers and has been affiliated with the West Virginia University Benedum Collaborative as a Professional Development School since 1997.

Based on 2007 test scores, the school ranked close to average for the state of West Virginia.

[24] In the mid 1970s, this was the first commercial power plant to use fluidized bed combustion to fire its boilers.

[26] New environmental regulations forced the company to shut down the plant in 2012, along with two others elsewhere in the state.

[27] About the only area around Rivesville where the coal has not been mined out is directly under the older portion of the town and under the riverbed.

[30] Other mines in the area exploited the shallower Sewickley Coal Seam, largely above the river level to the north and east.

[34] In 1913, the Monongahela Valley Traction Company had a mine in the even shallower Waynesburg coal seam about a mile southwest of Rivesville near Dakota.