Oak Mountain, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Carrollton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30116. The Survey maps it on the Carrollton quadrangle.

Oak Mountain within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1889 USGS Tallapoosa quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Tallapoosa quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Tallapoosa quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Carrollton quadrangle1:62500
1973 USGS Carrollton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Anniston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

226 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Oak Mountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 697 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 60 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	98
Arson/incendiarism	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6

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 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CARROLL-006
28 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CARROLL-009
17 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CARROLL-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Oak Mountain: 1 past producer, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
(Facility) Carrollton Copper Smelter	Copper	Plant
Stacy Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Carroll 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
Knob Hill	1.4 miles	16
Clem	2.3 miles	16
South Gate	2.4 miles	16
Cross Plains	2.5 miles	16
Hodge (historical)	2.8 miles	16
Chapel Heights Estates	2.9 miles	16
Lamplighter Square	3.0 miles	16
Carrollton	3.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332534. 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.