Hollow Oaks, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the South Newton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30016. The Survey maps it on the Worthville quadrangle.

Hollow Oaks within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Worthville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

283 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of Hollow Oaks between 1992 and 2019, burning about 749 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 49 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	144
Arson/incendiarism	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	10
Natural	8

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
4 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-NEWTON-002
20 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-NEWTON-003
18 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	18 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hollow Oaks: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
	No Name	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
	Snapping Shoals Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Newton 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
Riverwood	1.4 miles	11
Rocky Plains	1.4 miles	11
Creekwood Estates	1.4 miles	11
Riverside Park	1.5 miles	11
Riverbend Farms	2.9 miles	18
Fincher Farms	3.7 miles	12
Lassiter	3.9 miles	17
Springhill	4.1 miles	18

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.

Wikidata item Q122569475

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 1673506. 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.