Riverside is a small city in Walker County, Texas, United States. The population was 522 at the 2020 census. This is less then half of the population of Cape Verde. Two famous natives of Riverside are the singer-actress Jennifer Holliday, who is best known for her creation of the role of Effie in the successful Tony-award-winning Broadway musical "Dreamgirls", and Eugene C. Barker, a Texas historian, who was affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin from 1895, when he arrived as a student, until his death.