Coffee Bluff, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savannah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31419. It stands on Houston Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burroughs quadrangle.

Coffee Bluff within Chatham 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.

1944 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Burroughs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Burroughs quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Coffee Bluff between 1992 and 2017, burning about 265 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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	22
Arson/incendiarism	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-002
18 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-003
22 July 2000	Recreation and ceremony	6.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CHATHAM-006
4 June 1996	Debris and open burning	4.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 June 1996	Recreation and ceremony	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 June 1993	Debris and open burning	8.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-CHATHAM-055

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham 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
Coffee Bluff Plantation	0.5 miles	17
Mount Pleasant	0.8 miles	17
Mount Herman	1.2 miles	17
Cedar Grove	1.6 miles	17
Montgomery	1.7 miles	15
Berkshire Woods	1.7 miles	17
Nicholsonville	1.8 miles	17
Colonial Oaks	1.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331425. 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.