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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.

Bluffton within Clay County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Bluffton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010103
2020113+10 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

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.

Rambo-Bell-Redding Tenant House, County Road 130, east of Intersection U.S. 27 & State Route 1, Bluffton, Clay County, GA
Rambo-Bell-Redding Tenant House, County Road 130, east of Intersection U.S. 27 & State Route 1, Bluffton, Clay County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Rambo-Ivey Tenant House, East of U.S. 27/State Route 1, North of County Road 132, Bluffton, Clay County, GA
Rambo-Ivey Tenant House, East of U.S. 27/State Route 1, North of County Road 132, Bluffton, Clay County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

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 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 burning66
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020EARLY003
29 September 1993Debris and open burning4.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CLAY-003
24 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

10 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2006Thunderstorm WindBluffton$25,000Several public reports of downed trees and minor damage to homes.
November 1993Thunderstorm WindBluffton$5,000Several large tree limbs and television antennaes were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBluffton$500A single tree was blown down on Sains Hatchery Road with no other wind damage reported in the area. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBluffton$200A few trees down at the intersection of State Road 37 and U.S. Highway 27. Reported by the Clay County EMA.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBluffton-Trees were down and blocking Eldridge St.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindBluffton-Scattered trees were blown down.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindBluffton-Trees were blown down along Highway 27.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBluffton-Trees were blown down near Bluffton.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBluffton-A tree was blown down near Kolomoki Road.
May 1995HailBluffton-Marble- to dime-size hail was reported in Bluffton by WALB-TV, Albany. Bluffton is one mile north of the Early County border.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Harrisons Mill2.0 miles7
Jeff3.8 miles7
Oakland4.6 miles7
Bellville5.2 miles7
Suttons Corner5.5 miles7
Zetto6.1 miles7
Jones Crossing9.9 miles7
Pecan10.5 miles7

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 BlufftonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2583088The 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.