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Oak Grove, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 32324. The Survey maps it on the Mount Pleasant quadrangle. It stands 285 feet above sea level.

Oak Grove within Gadsden County

Then and now

1954 to 1994

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 1994
Topographic sheet of Oak Grove, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

On record in Oak Grove

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,148 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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 burning75
Railroad operations and maintenance38
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Natural3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePHILLPIS RD (20)
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1994Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHARDAWAY (20)
25 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gadsden County

Storms near this place

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Grove in 5 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindOak Grove$3,000A tree was blown down on power lines off of South Oak Road.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindOak Grove$2,000Trees were blown into power lines and resulted in a few power outages in northern Gadsden County.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindOak Grove$2,000A tree fell on a power line.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Several trees were blown down along Highway 90 near McKeown Road.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-A tree was blown down in the Oak Grove area.

Every storm recorded in Gadsden 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
Mount Pleasant3.3 miles13
Hardaway4.2 miles13
Rosedale4.7 miles13
Hardin Heights5.7 miles13
River Junction5.7 miles13
Chattahoochee5.9 miles13
Gretna6.5 miles14
Douglas City8.3 miles14

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 Q29094701The 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 287934. 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.