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Oakland, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Winter Garden-Ocoee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34787. It lies near Hull Island. The Survey maps it on the Clermont East quadrangle. 3,516 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

Oakland within Orange County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oakland, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Oakland, surveyed 1955

Population over time

2 figures

Oakland grew from 2,538 to 3,516 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,538
20203,516+978 (+39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Oakland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,264 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
20 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1996Debris and open burning42 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSUMMERPORT KEY (4)
12 July 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2000Natural125 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Oakland: 7 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Avalon PitClayPast Producer
Clermont MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway PitClayProducer
Tulley Sand MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
E.R. Jahna Industries - Clermont MineSandProducer
Florida Crushed Stone - Tulley MineSandProducer
Silver Sand Co. - Center Sand MineSandProducer
Tarmac Amercia, Inc. - Center Sand MineSandUnknown
Tarmac-Florida Silver Sand MineSandProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakland in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 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
June 2003Thunderstorm WindOakland$50,000Strong thunderstorm winds swept through a small community of mobile homes and older frame houses in the town of Oakland. One house was seriously damage and 3 others received minor damage.
June 2015HailOakland-A public report was received of quarter sized hail near the intersection of Oakland Road and Tubb Street in Oakland. A nearby report of golf ball sized hail was also relayed by the local media.
July 2012HailOakland-A citizen reported nickel sized hail near Exit 272 on the Florida Turnpike near Oakland.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Killarney1.1 miles13
Tildenville1.4 miles14
Winter Garden2.6 miles14
Harlem Heights3.2 miles14
Beulah3.5 miles14
Crown Point4.2 miles14
Ocoee4.8 miles14
Minorville (historical)5.1 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 OaklandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2036759The 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 288004. 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.