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River Bluff, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pewee Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40059. The Survey maps it on the Anchorage quadrangle. 436 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 636 feet above sea level.

River Bluff within Oldham County

On record in River 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.

Population over time

3 figures

River Bluff grew from 402 to 436 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000402
2010403+1 (+0%)
2020436+33 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of River Bluff in 2000, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
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
15 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oldham County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of River Bluff: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crestwood Mine UndergroundStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Utica QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dredge No. 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harmony LandingSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hel Del DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hel Del DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utica Sand PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utica Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oldham 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
Hillcrest0.1 miles16
Belknap Beach1.6 miles17
Oldham Acres2.3 miles17
Goshen2.6 miles17
Harmony Village2.7 miles17
Harmony Lake Estates2.8 miles17
Harmony Landing3.0 miles17
Orchard Grass Hills5.2 miles16

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 River BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2449876The 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 1669518. 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.