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.
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
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Parklisted 1966- Fort Oglethorpe Historic Districtlisted 1979
Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records
- Chickamauga National Military Park Tour Roads, Alexander's Bridge, At the confluence of West Chickamauga Creek and Gordon's Slough, Fort Oglethorpefederal building survey, 2 photographs
- Chickamauga National Military Park Tour Roads, Connecting Roadway, Alexander's Bridge Road, between Alexander's Bridge and Slough Bridge, Fort Oglethorpefederal building survey, 1 photograph
- Chickamauga National Military Park Tour Roads, Fort Oglethorpefederal building survey, 54 photographs
- 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 Oglethorpefederal building survey, 2 photographs
- McFarland Gap Road, Culvert, Fort Oglethorpefederal building survey, 4 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresFort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9,263 | |
| 2020 | 10,423 | +1,160 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 28 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Catoosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1892 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1936 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000
- 1942 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
Photographs
6 photographs, 2017Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
310 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 148 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 69 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 21 |
| Smoking | 13 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-WALKER-016 |
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-CATOOSA-007 |
| 5 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett Mine No. 1 | Aluminum | Past Producer | ||
| Bennett No.2 Prospect | Aluminum | Prospect | ||
| Hall Ore Bank Area | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant | |
| Mcfarland Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant | |
| Alton Park Tract | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | 1952 | |
| Alton Park Tract | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Chatanooga Mine | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Dave L Brown Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| General Shale Georgia Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Rossville Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairlawn Acres | 0.3 miles | 28 | |
| Midway | 1.0 miles | 28 | |
| Old Fort Estates | 1.0 miles | 28 | |
| Cloud Springs | 1.0 miles | 28 | |
| Green Acres | 1.1 miles | 28 | |
| Dallondale | 1.1 miles | 28 | |
| McDonald Acres | 1.2 miles | 28 | |
| Pinewood Estates | 1.4 miles | 28 |
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 Oglethorpe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3263751 | The 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.












