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High Bluff, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hartford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36344. It stands on Spann Branch. The Survey maps it on the Clayhatchee quadrangle. It stands 272 feet above sea level.

High Bluff within Geneva County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of High Bluff between 1996 and 2020, burning about 282 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 September 2010Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120831-001
4 July 1996Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 May 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 May 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 May 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200512-7

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Geneva County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of High Bluff: 5 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bellwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clayhatchee QuarrySilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Unnamed QuarrySilicaProducerQuartz
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Geneva County

Storms near this place

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names High Bluff in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2015Thunderstorm WindHigh Bluff$10,000A mobile home trailer was blown onto its side between Hartford and Wicksburg. Damage was estimated.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHigh Bluff$2,000Trees were blown down near County Road 47.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHigh Bluff$1,000A tree was blown down near High Bluff resulting in a power outage.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHigh Bluff-A tree was blown down on County Road 41.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindHigh Bluff-Storm debris was on Highway 167 in both directions before County Road 41.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHigh Bluff-A tree was blown down on County Road 41.

Every storm recorded in Geneva 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bellwood3.5 miles11
Dundee4.0 miles11
Hartford4.2 miles11
Bald Hill5.1 miles12
Oak Grove5.3 miles12
Highfalls5.4 miles12
Kellys Crossroads6.1 miles12
Scranton6.4 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on High BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058474The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 120053. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.