Colonial Oaks, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savannah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31419. It stands on Friday Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burroughs quadrangle.

Colonial Oaks within Chatham County

On record in Colonial Oaks

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.

Nicholsonville Baptist Churchlisted 1978 · 0.7 miles away

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.

1944 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Burroughs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Burroughs quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Colonial Oaks between 1992 and 2017, burning about 558 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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	31
Arson/incendiarism	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
13 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-CHATHAM-003
31 August 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-002
18 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-003
27 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham 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
Cedar Grove	0.3 miles	17
Berkshire Woods	0.3 miles	17
Nicholsonville	0.6 miles	17
Mount Herman	0.6 miles	17
Welwood	0.8 miles	17
Windsor on the Marsh	0.9 miles	17
Mount Pleasant	1.0 miles	17
Coffee Bluff Plantation	1.3 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1694487. 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.