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Oakland, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marion County Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72661. It lies near Oak Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Bull Shoals quadrangle. 72 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,047 feet above sea level.

Oakland within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Oakland between 1992 and 2019, burning about 447 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1999Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2011Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 July 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation125710-07718-06092015-1130
26 June 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177175-07718-06262018-1839
26 June 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oakland: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead. 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
Irish TaylorLeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakland in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Thunderstorm WindOakland-The roof of a covered deck was blown off of a home in Oakland.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindOakland-Trees were blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindOakland-Thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindOakland-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph and knocked down some large trees.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOakland-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs.
March 2020HailOakland-no account filed
April 2011HailOakland-no account filed
July 2003HailOakland-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOakland-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOakland-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOakland-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOakland-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOakland-no account filed
June 1999HailOakland-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Oakland-no account filed
June 1996HailOakland-no account filed
July 1994HailOakland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Price Place3.0 miles18
Bull Shoals5.3 miles18
Midway6.0 miles17
Pine Branch6.7 miles17
Fairview9.0 miles18
Stone (historical)9.1 miles17
Kingdom Springs (historical)10.0 miles17
Peel10.7 miles16

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 OaklandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7073928The 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 77888. 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.

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.