Red Bluff, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fitzgerald census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31798. It sits by Mobley Bluff. The Survey maps it on the China Hill quadrangle.

Red Bluff within Ben Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS China Hill quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Red Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 611 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 44 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	125
Arson/incendiarism	44
Equipment and vehicle use	39
Natural	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
29 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1997	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-COFFEE-008
2 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Ben Hill 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
Ashton	9.5 miles	8
Bowens Mill	12.0 miles	8
Queensland	12.5 miles	8
Lulaville	12.6 miles	8
Fitzgerald	13.9 miles	8
Westwood	15.6 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332806. 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.