Elliotts Bluff, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the St. Marys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31558. It sits by Elliotts Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Harrietts Bluff quadrangle.

Elliotts Bluff within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 Kingsland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Harrietts Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Harrietts Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Harrietts Bluff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

173 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Elliotts Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 840 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 34 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	61
Debris and open burning	45
Arson/incendiarism	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	4
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
4 September 1999	Natural	4.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Natural	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Natural	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CAMDEN-009
26 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-045
26 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2000	Natural	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-029

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
Palmas Realas	0.4 miles	18
Foxwood	0.6 miles	18
River Cove	0.6 miles	18
Elliotts Plantation	0.8 miles	18
Harrietts Bluff	2.2 miles	18
River Oaks at Harrietts Bluff	2.3 miles	18
Grover View	2.3 miles	17
Crooked River Plantation	2.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331652. 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.