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Fair Oaks, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Fair Oaks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30060. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle. 9,028 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.

Fair Oaks within Cobb County

Population over time

2 figures

Fair Oaks grew from 8,225 to 9,028 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
20108,225
20209,028+803 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Fair Oaks between 1992 and 2017, burning about 69 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
22 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKennesaw Mountain National Battlefield ParkFIRE2
13 July 2009Naturalunder an acreKennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park90109
6 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.6 acresKennesaw Mountain National Battlefield ParkJUDGE'S ROW
25 June 1992Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 May 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKennesaw Mountain National Battlefield ParkISLANDFIRE
8 April 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 April 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fair Oaks: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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
Kramper PropertySulfurPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cobb County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fair Oaks in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2016Thunderstorm WindFair Oaks$25,000The broadcast media reported a large tree was blown down onto the corner of an apartment building off of Favor Road NW north of Windy Hill Road. No injuries were reported.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFair Oaks$20,000The Cobb County 911 Center reported that a few trees were down around Marietta, especially on Pat Mell Road where one tree fell on an unoccupied vehicle.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindFair Oaks$3,000The Marietta Daily Journal reported that several trees were blown down by strong straight-line winds along Concord Road in the Covered Bridge Historic District.
September 2009Flash FloodFair Oaks$2,000The USGS stream gage on Nickajack Creek near Mableton reached its flood stage of 10 feet at 748 pm EDT as the final round of heavy showers and thunderstorms tracked from west to east across the area on totally saturated ground from several weeks of flooding rainfall. This incident resulted in only minor debris removal with monetary damages estimated to be $2000.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindFair Oaks-Report of a tree into house at Kennesaw Dr. and Trailwood Dr.
April 2009HailFair Oaks-The public observed nickel-sized hail in the eastern part of Cobb county in the Indian Hills, Crossgate, and Ashebrook area.
July 2002FloodFair Oaks-The public reported flooding along Olley Creek.

Every storm recorded in Cobb 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
Marietta Place Homes (historical)1.9 miles20
Whitlock2.2 miles20
Clay Homes2.3 miles20
Marietta2.5 miles20
Fort Hill Homes2.6 miles20
Smyrna2.8 miles20
Northwest Park2.8 miles23
Rose Garden Hills3.2 miles23

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 Fair OaksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2737933The 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 331684. 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.