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Spring 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. It stands on Gowrie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waverly quadrangle. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Spring 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.

Fires near this place

309 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 309 fires within 5 miles of Spring Bluff between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2,419 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 51 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 burning97
Arson/incendiarism51
Natural49
Equipment and vehicle use47
Railroad operations and maintenance24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking8

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
9 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2018Natural5.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019CAMDEN002
6 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Bluff in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2002Thunderstorm WindSpring Bluff$2,000Large trees blown across power lines and lines downed on Dover Bluff Road.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSpring Bluff-Several wires down in the Waverly and White | Oak areas due to thunderstorm winds. Time | estimated by radar.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSpring Bluff-Trees were blown down in the northwest section of the county. The time of damage was based on radar imagery.
April 2009FloodSpring Bluff-At 04:00 a.m. EST the Emergency Manager reported major flooding on the Camden County side of the Satilla River with twenty residences flooded. This included fifteen mobile homes which were evacuated.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindSpring Bluff-Numerous trees and power lines down.
May 1998HailSpring Bluff-no account filed
July 1995HailSpring Bluff-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hogan2.9 miles18
Hickory Bluff3.3 miles18
Satilla Shores4.1 miles18
Ella Park (historical)4.5 miles18
Waverly5.0 miles18
Red Bluff5.1 miles18
Glencoe5.4 miles18
Lampadocia (historical)5.8 miles18

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 Spring BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7580391The 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 323356. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.