The Bluff, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savannah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31404. It sits by Causton Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Savannah quadrangle.

The Bluff within Chatham County

On record in The 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.

Pine Gardens Historic Districtlisted 2014 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1942 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of The Bluff between 1992 and 2016, burning about 222 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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
Arson/incendiarism	15
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-004
15 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of The Bluff: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Titanium, Pigment. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Douglas Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Flintkote/ Savannah, Ga.	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Savannah Plant Ti	Titanium, Pigment	Plant	1955

Every working recorded in Chatham 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
Pine Gardens	1.1 miles	17
Savannah Gardens	1.1 miles	17
Avondale	1.1 miles	17
Avon Park	1.1 miles	17
LePageville	1.2 miles	17
Bonaventure (historical)	1.3 miles	17
Gordonston	1.5 miles	17
Green Acres	1.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1694676. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.