Oak Park, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the West Wakulla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32358. It stands on Deep Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sopchoppy quadrangle.

Oak Park within Wakulla County

Then and now

1940 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 48 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 Park, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Oak Park, surveyed 1940

Compare 1940 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1940 USGS Arran quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Arran quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sopchoppy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Oak Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28,980 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 15 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
Natural	32
Debris and open burning	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	15
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
8 September 1999	Natural	30 acres	National Forests in Florida	GRIMES BAY
7 September 1999	Natural	8.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	G F & A
7 September 1999	Natural	5.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	MILLGROVE
4 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	LONG BRANCH
23 August 2005	Natural	10 acres	National Forests in Florida	KELLY
20 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	ALLIGATOR
17 August 2020	Natural	685 acres	National Forests in Florida	BAYTREE
8 July 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	MINNOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wakulla 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ashmore	1.8 miles	14
Sopchoppy	3.0 miles	14
Buckhorn	3.4 miles	14
Medart	5.9 miles	14
Tully	6.1 miles	14
Sanborn	6.1 miles	13
Mount Pleasant	6.2 miles	14
Lawhons Mill	6.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 306135. 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.