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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fort Oglethorpe-Lakeview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30742. The Survey maps it on the Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle. 10,423 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Fort Oglethorpe within Catoosa County

On record in Fort Oglethorpe

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 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Oglethorpe grew from 9,263 to 10,423 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
20109,263
202010,423+1,160 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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.

Photographs

6 photographs, 2017

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Lovely home at the old U.S. Cavalry post at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, now part of the larger town of the same name, near the Chickamauga Battlefield site from the U.S. Civil War
Lovely home at the old U.S. Cavalry post at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, now part of the larger town of the same name, near the Chickamauga Battlefield site from the U.S. Civil War
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
The onetime band barracks at the old U.S. Cavalry post at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, now part of the larger town of the same name, near the Chickamauga Battlefield site from the U.S. Civil War
The onetime band barracks at the old U.S. Cavalry post at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, now part of the larger town of the same name, near the Chickamauga Battlefield site from the U.S. Civil War
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
McFarland Gap Road, Culvert, Fort Oglethorpe, Catoosa County, GA
McFarland Gap Road, Culvert, Fort Oglethorpe, Catoosa County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Chickamauga National Military Park Tour Roads, Gordon's Slough Bridge, At the confluence of Alexander's Bridge Road and Gordon's Slough, southeast of Alexander's Bridge, Fort Oglethorpe, Catoosa County, GA
Chickamauga National Military Park Tour Roads, Gordon's Slough Bridge, At the confluence of Alexander's Bridge Road and Gordon's Slough, southeast of Alexander's Bridge, Fort Oglethorpe, Catoosa County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Chickamauga National Military Park Tour Roads, Fort Oglethorpe, Catoosa County, GA
Chickamauga National Military Park Tour Roads, Fort Oglethorpe, Catoosa County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Chickamauga National Military Park Tour Roads, Alexander's Bridge, At the confluence of West Chickamauga Creek and Gordon's Slough, Fort Oglethorpe, Catoosa County, GA
Chickamauga National Military Park Tour Roads, Alexander's Bridge, At the confluence of West Chickamauga Creek and Gordon's Slough, Fort Oglethorpe, Catoosa County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

310 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 310 fires within 5 miles of Fort Oglethorpe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 640 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 69 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 burning148
Arson/incendiarism69
Equipment and vehicle use22
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Smoking13
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WALKER-016
6 September 2002Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CATOOSA-007
5 September 1993Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Fort Oglethorpe: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Iron, Aluminum. 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
Bennett Mine No. 1AluminumPast Producer
Bennett No.2 ProspectAluminumProspect
Hall Ore Bank AreaIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Mcfarland MineIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Alton Park TractStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1952
Alton Park TractClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Chatanooga MineClayUnknown
Dave L Brown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
General Shale Georgia PitClayProducer
Rossville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Catoosa 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
Fairlawn Acres0.3 miles28
Midway1.0 miles28
Old Fort Estates1.0 miles28
Cloud Springs1.0 miles28
Green Acres1.1 miles28
Dallondale1.1 miles28
McDonald Acres1.2 miles28
Pinewood Estates1.4 miles28

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 Fort OglethorpeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3263751The 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 331756. 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.