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Oak Grove, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Baker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32531. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oak Grove quadrangle. It stands 157 feet above sea level.

Oak Grove within Okaloosa County

Then and now

1949 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 29 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 1978
Topographic sheet of Oak Grove, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,163 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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 burning40
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1

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 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBILL LUNDY FIRE-1146
26 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1996Arson/incendiarism24 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service46-NANA'S FIRE - 0906
15 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFOX PEN (46)
13 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSMALL FIRE. - 1083
1 September 2011Natural78 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHART ROAD (46)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okaloosa 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
Peaden1.4 miles13
Clear Springs3.5 miles14
Blackman3.7 miles14
Escambia Farms4.2 miles14
Okaloo4.4 miles13
Campton4.4 miles14
Good Hope4.6 miles14
Laurel Hill6.4 miles13

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 Q30594990The 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 306132. 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.