Bluffton, South Carolina

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 4 records

• Bluffton Historic Districtlisted 1996
• Church of the Crosslisted 1975
• Rose Hill Plantation Houselisted 1983
• Campbell Chapel AME Churchlisted 2019

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Rose Hill Plantation House, 2.5 miles Northwest of intersection of U.S. HIghway 278 & State Route 46, Blufftonfederal building survey, 19 photographs

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.

• 1920 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
• 1945 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Bluffton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 663 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Brighton Beach
• Myrtle Island
• Copp Landing
• Palmetto Bluff
• Buckingham Landing
• Barrell Landing

Every fire recorded in Beaufort County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bluffton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Beaufort County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bluffton in 112 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 59 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 12 lightning, 7 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Beaufort County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1220833. 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.

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.