Bluffton, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bluffton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39824. The Survey maps it on the Bluffton quadrangle. 113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 326 feet above sea level.
On record in Bluffton
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Rambo-Bell-Redding Tenant House, County Road 130, east of Intersection U.S. 27 & State Route 1, Blufftonfederal building survey, 6 photographs
- Rambo-Ivey Tenant House, East of U.S. 27/State Route 1, North of County Road 132, Blufftonfederal building survey, 5 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresBluffton grew from 103 to 113 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 103 | |
| 2020 | 113 | +10 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
2 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
104 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Bluffton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 384 acres in total. 6 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 | 66 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020EARLY003 |
| 29 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 4.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-CLAY-003 |
| 24 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bluffton in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluffton | $25,000 | Several public reports of downed trees and minor damage to homes. |
| November 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluffton | $5,000 | Several large tree limbs and television antennaes were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluffton | $500 | A single tree was blown down on Sains Hatchery Road with no other wind damage reported in the area. Monetary damage was estimated. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluffton | $200 | A few trees down at the intersection of State Road 37 and U.S. Highway 27. Reported by the Clay County EMA. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluffton | - | Trees were down and blocking Eldridge St. |
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluffton | - | Scattered trees were blown down. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluffton | - | Trees were blown down along Highway 27. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluffton | - | Trees were blown down near Bluffton. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bluffton | - | A tree was blown down near Kolomoki Road. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Bluffton | - | Marble- to dime-size hail was reported in Bluffton by WALB-TV, Albany. Bluffton is one mile north of the Early County border. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harrisons Mill | 2.0 miles | 7 | |
| Jeff | 3.8 miles | 7 | |
| Oakland | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Bellville | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Suttons Corner | 5.5 miles | 7 | |
| Zetto | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Jones Crossing | 9.9 miles | 7 | |
| Pecan | 10.5 miles | 7 |
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 Bluffton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2583088 | 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 311579. 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.




