Big Oak, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1993. It lies in ZIP code area 31568. It sits by Oquin Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Boons Lake quadrangle.

Big Oak within Brantley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1917 USGS Nahunta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1918 USGS Nahunta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Boons Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Boons Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Big Oak between 1992 and 2020, burning about 616 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 12 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	61
Natural	35
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
29 September 2019	Natural	32 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BRANTLEY022
7 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1997	Natural	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2011	Natural	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-CAMDEN-008
22 August 1993	Natural	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-CAMDEN-005
18 August 2011	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-CAMDEN-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brantley 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
Bachlott	5.2 miles	8
Hickox	7.0 miles	17
Happy Landing	8.3 miles	17
Salter	9.7 miles	17
Nahunta	10.2 miles	17
Prosperity	10.4 miles	17
Burton Terrace	10.5 miles	17
Lulaton	10.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331165. 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.