Oak Mountain, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Waverly Hall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31826. The Survey maps it on the Waverly Hall quadrangle.

Oak Mountain within Harris 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Waverly Hall quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waverly Hall quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Oak Mountain between 1992 and 2019, burning about 953 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 50 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	142
Arson/incendiarism	50
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 2009	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HARRIS004
25 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TALBOT-013
22 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	4.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-HARRIS-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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
Waverly Hall	4.1 miles	16
Shiloh	4.9 miles	22
Turntime Crossroads	4.9 miles	15
Pine Mountain Valley	6.5 miles	10
Ossahatchie	6.7 miles	15
Ridgeway	7.4 miles	16
Kingsboro	8.0 miles	15
Hamilton	8.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326432. 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.