Green Oaks, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Troy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36081. The Survey maps it on the Troy quadrangle.

Green Oaks within Pike County

On record in Green Oaks

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 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Troy High Schoollisted 1984 · 0.6 miles away
Troy Masonic Templelisted 2024 · 1.0 miles away

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.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Troy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Troy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Green Oaks between 1994 and 2019, burning about 338 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	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
29 August 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 May 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190528-1
22 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	1388 CO RD 7708, AL
17 May 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 May 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 May 2018	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180513-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Green Oaks: 11 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Pik 4 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
J A Curtis Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Oaks Heights	0.3 miles	8
Mountainbrook	0.4 miles	8
Woodland Hills	0.6 miles	8
Troy	0.8 miles	8
Northdale	0.9 miles	8
Westview	1.0 miles	8
College Park	1.1 miles	8
Trojan Terrace	1.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1730426. 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.