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Oak Grove, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Century census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32568. It stands on Hall Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bratt quadrangle. It stands 262 feet above sea level.

Oak Grove within Escambia County

Then and now

1941 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oak Grove, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Oak Grove, surveyed 1941

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 509 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use29
Debris and open burning24
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service17-TOLER ROAD FIRE-1473
26 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service17 HWY 97 FIRE-0918
21 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service17 LAMBERT BRIDGE RD FIRE-1392
20 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service17- KANSAS RD FIRE 1363
11 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia 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 Oak Grove: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Red Sand and Gravel - Century MineSandProducer

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Grove in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-High winds downed large trees at the intersection of Highway 97 and North Highway 99 blocking both lanes of Highway 99.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-High winds downed trees across a power line on Howell Road near CR 97.
January 2010Flash FloodOak Grove-Lambert Ridge Road near Oak Grove, Florida closed due to high water covering the roadway.

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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
Bratt3.9 miles12
Walnut Hill4.7 miles15
McDavid6.4 miles15
Byrneville6.6 miles12
Bogia7.1 miles15
Bluff Springs7.3 miles12
Pineville8.2 miles15
McKinnon8.6 miles15

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 Q29094704The 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 295495. 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.