BlockOld 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. It sits by Buzzard Roost Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Brewersville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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
35 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Old Bluffport between 1994 and 2019, burning about 387 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
| 4 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 August 2016 | Natural | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160804-1 |
| 13 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 May 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluffport | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Moore Town | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Zion Hill | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Brewersville | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Dug Hill | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Belmont | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Woodford | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Parker | 6.7 miles | 13 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122543299 | The 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 156830. 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.