Bullhead Bluff, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Kingsland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31537. It stands on Riley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jerusalem quadrangle.

Bullhead Bluff within Camden County

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.

1917 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:62500
1919 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Jerusalem quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Jerusalem quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

77 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Bullhead Bluff between 1993 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 11 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	35
Natural	19
Arson/incendiarism	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 August 2014	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-CAMDEN-004
29 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-041
14 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-CAMDEN-006
9 July 2013	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-CAMDEN-001
31 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 1993	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2007	Natural	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Silco	1.4 miles	17
Hazlehurst	2.0 miles	17
Mays Bluff	2.6 miles	17
Tompkins	3.3 miles	17
Colerain	4.6 miles	17
Burnt Fort	5.0 miles	17
Scarlet	5.5 miles	17
Greenville	5.8 miles	17

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 Bullhead Bluff	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122588392	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 354909. 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.