BlockOak Mountain Spring, Georgia
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Woodland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31831. The Survey maps it on the Shiloh quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 22 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.
- 1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1934 USGS Warm Springs quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1936 USGS Warm Springs quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Shiloh quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
224 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Oak Mountain Spring (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 960 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 48 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 | 131 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 48 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| 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 |
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020HARRIS004 |
| 25 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-TALBOT-013 |
| 16 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 19 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-TALBOT-003 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sardis | 3.9 miles | 22 | |
| Hawkins Crossroads | 4.4 miles | 22 | |
| Flint Hill | 5.2 miles | 22 | |
| Tax Crossroads | 6.2 miles | 22 | |
| Greens Mill | 6.3 miles | 22 | |
| Belleview | 7.1 miles | 22 | |
| Woodland | 7.1 miles | 22 | |
| Olive Branch | 7.2 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350829. 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.