Red Bluff, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Clio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29525. It stands on Beaverdam Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clio quadrangle.

Red Bluff within Marlboro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Rockingham quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Clio quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Laurinburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Red Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,605 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 100 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	100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	86
Debris and open burning	59
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Smoking	9
Natural	7

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
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	STATELINE
2 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marlboro 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
McDonalds	2.1 miles	8
Clio	3.1 miles	8
McInnis (historical)	4.1 miles	8
McColl	4.5 miles	10
Tatum	4.8 miles	10
Hebron	5.2 miles	8
Dunbar	6.1 miles	8
Five Forks	6.4 miles	8

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 Red Bluff	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85796313	The 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 1231705. 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.