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High Bluff, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eastpoint census division. It stands on High Bluff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Green Point quadrangle.

High Bluff within Franklin County

Then and now

1944 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of High Bluff, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of High Bluff, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of High Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,695 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Arson/incendiarism8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1

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
6 September 1992Natural12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTOWER RD EQUIPMENT (19-5)
3 September 2005Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEAST BAY COMAND
27 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTOWER RD (19) -0525
18 September 2019Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEAHAWK FIRE-(19)-0553
14 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSEAHAWK FIRE-(19)-0436
6 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(19) SUZUKI FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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 High Bluff: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Dot Tallahassee - 110-Acre MineSandUnknown
Dot Tallahassee - C.C. Land MineSandUnknown
Dot Tallahassee - Yent Bayou MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Green Point4.3 miles17
Creels4.5 miles16
Eastpoint6.4 miles17
Hays Place6.6 miles16
Carrabelle Lighthouse6.6 miles20
Magnolia Bluffs7.0 miles17
Yent Place7.3 miles20
Carrabelle Beach7.5 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295349. 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.