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.
Then and now
1954 to 1994The 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.


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.
Joshua Davis Houselisted 1975 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Mt Pleasant quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Mt Pleasant quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Mt Pleasant quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
166 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 75 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 38 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | PHILLPIS RD (20) |
| 30 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | HARDAWAY (20) |
| 25 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2016Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | $3,000 | A tree was blown down on power lines off of South Oak Road. |
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | $2,000 | Trees were blown into power lines and resulted in a few power outages in northern Gadsden County. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | $2,000 | A tree fell on a power line. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | - | Several trees were blown down along Highway 90 near McKeown Road. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | - | A tree was blown down in the Oak Grove area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Hardaway | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Rosedale | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Hardin Heights | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| River Junction | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Chattahoochee | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Gretna | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Douglas City | 8.3 miles | 14 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q29094701 | 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 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.







