A small town in Iowa regarded as the home of James T. Kirk and shown in the 2009 film as the site of the shipyard where the alternate Enterprise was built.
Riverside, Iowa, is the town most closely linked with James T. Kirk. Kirk states in The Voyage Home that he comes from Iowa, and the real town of Riverside adopted the title of his future birthplace in the 1980s with Gene Roddenberry's blessing.
The 2009 film Star Trek puts the town on screen. In the Kelvin timeline Kirk is born in space but grows up there, wrecks his stepfather's car in a nearby quarry, and meets Captain Pike after a bar fight with cadets. Pike challenges him to enlist, and he rides to the Riverside Shipyard, where the Enterprise is taking shape, to board a recruit shuttle.
The town holds an annual festival celebrating its place in Star Trek lore.