Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 140
Land area (2000): 0.200474 sq. miles (0.519226 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.200474 sq. miles (0.519226 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65559
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.370165 N, 85.600873 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
River Bluff
Wikipedia
River Bluff is a historic home located near Wintergreen, Nelson County, Virginia. It is sited on a steep bank overlooking the South Fork of the Rockfish River. It is a three-part Flemish bond brick house consisting of a two story central pavilion with one-story flanking wings. The main block was constructed about 1785, and the house achieved its final form by about 1805.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
A River Bluff or Riverbluff is a very steep and broad hill or small cliff, next to a river.
River Bluff or Riverbluff may also refer to:
- River Bluff, Kentucky, a city in Oldham County
- Riverbluff Cave, a paleontological site near Springfield, Missouri
- River Bluff High School, in Lexington, South Carolina
- River Bluff (Wintergreen, Virginia), a historic home
Usage examples of "river bluff".
As she wheeled her pony and rode away from the scene of her adventure on the river bluff, her state of mind can be more readily imagined than described.
Wishing to be alone, he went out and walked a trail leading round the river bluff.
The woods were clear of human life and beyond them rose a small slope to a sort of shallow river bluff, from which we could see over a fairly wide, open, grassy area.
The white troops and lancers stretched from the river bluff due south of the town all the way to the northwest road that led to Lornth itself-an arc of nearly a hundred and twenty degrees filled with armsmen and weapons, without a gap.
The Yumas had already left the dunes and they could see the smoke rising darkly along the river bluff.
The delay was painful for a boy who had to lie in his bed, in the darkness beneath the river bluff, counting his heartbeats, wishing against nature that the Sun would set early and he could lead the other men to this marvel.
Anyhow, from Milton you could walk to Hurt Hollow the back way, straight up the river bluff, along the bluff top by a maze of little roads, and down to the river again.
Behind him, surely not too far away, was the edge of the river bluff.