Dover Bluff, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodbine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31565. The Survey maps it on the Dover Bluff quadrangle.

Dover Bluff within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1918 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Dover Bluff quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Dover Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Dover Bluff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Dover Bluff between 1992 and 2018, burning about 708 acres in total. 34 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
Natural	34
Debris and open burning	24
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1999	Natural	9.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 1999	Natural	225 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-039

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
Piney Bluff	0.6 miles	18
Ella Park (historical)	3.7 miles	18
Lampadocia (historical)	3.9 miles	18
Bell View (historical)	4.8 miles	17
Hickory Bluff	5.7 miles	18
Hogan	6.7 miles	18
Forestview	7.1 miles	17
Satilla Shores	7.5 miles	18

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 Dover Bluff	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888737	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 331584. 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.