Bluffport, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Livingston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35470. The Survey maps it on the Brewersville quadrangle.

Bluffport within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1929 USGS Epes quadrangle1:48000
1932 USGS Epes quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Brewersville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS De Kalb quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Bluffport between 1994 and 2019, burning about 357 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 were 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
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	87 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	44 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	HWY 28 EAST, AL
9 June 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 May 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 May 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 May 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bluffport: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Banks Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Halsell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Russell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sumter 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Moore Town	3.0 miles	13
Old Bluffport	3.1 miles	13
Livingston	3.9 miles	13
Parker	4.1 miles	13
Zion Hill	5.1 miles	13
Brewersville	5.5 miles	13
McCainville	6.6 miles	13
Epes	6.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 114623. 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.