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Raccoon Bluff, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Darien census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31331. It lies near Sapelo Island. The Survey maps it on the Cabretta Inlet quadrangle.

Raccoon Bluff within McIntosh County

On record in Raccoon Bluff

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Raccoon Bluff between 1993 and 2015, burning about 2,891 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 2 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
Natural20
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreBlackbeard Island National Wildlife RefugeBARNARD#1
6 August 1993Natural5.0 acresBlackbeard Island National Wildlife RefugeBERRY
29 August 1995Naturalunder an acreBlackbeard Island National Wildlife RefugeBLB-NO2
28 August 2013Naturalunder an acreBlackbeard Island National Wildlife RefugeWHIFF
22 August 1995Naturalunder an acreBlackbeard Island National Wildlife RefugeBLB-NO1
20 August 2010Natural651 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MCINTOSH-002
14 August 2013Naturalunder an acreBlackbeard Island National Wildlife RefugeGHOST
11 August 1999Naturalunder an acreBlackbeard Island National Wildlife RefugeJOHNSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh 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
Sapelo Island5.3 miles16
Valona5.8 miles16
Cedar Point6.4 miles16
Doboy (historical)6.8 miles16
Julienton7.4 miles15
Meridian7.6 miles16
Crescent7.7 miles15
Brailsford (historical)7.8 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122570482The 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 332777. 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.