Oaky Streak, Alabama
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Georgiana-McKenzie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36037. The Survey maps it on the Industry quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Industry quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
66 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Oaky Streak between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,493 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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 | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 August 2011 | Natural | 46 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | COOKS BRIDGE ROAD, AL |
| 22 August 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190728-1 |
| 30 June 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 June 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 May 2011 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 5016 WESLEY CHAPEL ROAD, AL |
| 27 May 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.7 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oaky Streak in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2003: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oaky Streak | $50,000 | High winds from a line of thunderstorms that had moved out of Covington county, blew down several hundred mature pine trees. The damage was along County Road 59 south of Oaky Streak. The "Bow Echo" that caused the high winds then weakened as it moved east and northeast. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Oaky Streak | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industry | 3.6 miles | 7 | |
| Shell | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Pigeon Creek | 6.0 miles | 7 | |
| Rhodes | 7.3 miles | 8 | |
| Sardis | 7.4 miles | 7 | |
| Avant | 8.4 miles | 8 | |
| Brushy Creek | 8.8 miles | 9 | |
| McKenzie | 8.9 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.
| Wikidata item Q122546825 | 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 156820. 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.
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.



