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Buffalo Bluff, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Crescent City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32189. It lies near Seven Sisters Islands. The Survey maps it on the Satsuma quadrangle.

Buffalo Bluff within Putnam County

Then and now

1912 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Buffalo Bluff, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Buffalo Bluff, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

306 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 306 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,839 acres in total. 65 started naturally. 37 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
Natural65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined62
Equipment and vehicle use49
Debris and open burning42
Arson/incendiarism37
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks3
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
23 September 1995Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-08-1095 PUTNAM
21 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWASTE WATER (54)
12 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1999Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2006Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/HUNGRY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buffalo Bluff in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBuffalo Bluff$1,000Putnam county EM reported a tree fell on a house in Buffalo Bluff, FL.
August 2025Heavy RainBuffalo Bluff-A public weather station near the intersection of Buffalo Bluff Road and South US Highway 17 measured 2.15 inches in the past hour.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBuffalo Bluff-A tree was blown down near the intersection of East Buffalo Bluff Road and Cove Drive. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2021Heavy RainBuffalo Bluff-A station near Buffalo Bluff measured 6.08 inches of rainfall.
July 1998HailBuffalo Bluff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Satsuma1.9 miles17
Okawahathako (historical)2.4 miles17
Peniel2.8 miles17
Lundy3.0 miles17
Possum Bluff3.0 miles17
Saratoga3.3 miles17
Sutherlands Still3.8 miles16
Grand View Grove4.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 279620. 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.

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.