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Oak Grove, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Sylacauga census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35150. It lies near Merkl Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Sylacauga West quadrangle. 564 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 558 feet above sea level.

Oak Grove within Talladega County

Population over time

2 figures

Oak Grove grew from 528 to 564 between 2010 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
2010528
2020564+36 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

240 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,045 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 76 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 burning99
Arson/incendiarism76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony14
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes1

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
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Oak Grove: 11 unknowns, 7 past producers, 5 producers, 3 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension, Manganese. 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
Kymulga ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectCopperOccurrence
Sylacauga Clay PitClayPast Producer
Sylacauga Shale PitClayPast Producer
Alabama Marble Co. QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Butler Estate MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Marble City Quarry Co. QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Morretti-Harrah QuarryMarble, DimensionProducer
Wesson Manganese MineManganeseProspect1918
Wesson Mn Mine Big Grunt MineManganesePast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Talladega 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
Thomas Hill1.3 miles23
Five Points1.3 miles23
Walco1.5 miles23
Comerdale1.5 miles23
Gantts Junction1.6 miles23
Odena1.7 miles23
Mignon2.1 miles23
Zubers2.8 miles23

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 Oak GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65835The 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 124059. 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.