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Oak Park, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Oak Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30436. The Survey maps it on the Oak Park quadrangle. 512 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 259 feet above sea level.

Oak Park within Emanuel County

Population over time

3 figures

Oak Park grew from 144 to 512 between 1910 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.

YearPeople Change
1910144
2010484
2020512+28 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

316 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 316 fires within 5 miles of Oak Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,806 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 94 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 burning160
Arson/incendiarism94
Equipment and vehicle use29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 1999Debris and open burning4.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021EMANUEL009
2 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-EMANUEL-020
15 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emanuel County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Park in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2012HailOak Park$55,000The Emanuel County 911 Center reported that golf ball sized hail occurred in Oak Park.
March 1996Thunderstorm WindOak Park$3,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOak Park$2,000Emanuel county 911 reported several trees were knocked down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOak Park$1,000The Emanuel county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down.
March 2023HailOak Park-Report of 1.5 inch sized hail near Harrington St and Oak Park Hwy.
August 2009HailOak Park-The public observed penny-sized hail between Oak Park and Stillmore.
March 2005HailOak Park-The Emanuel County Sheriff reported quarter-sized hail while traveling along a 1-mile stretch of Georgia Highway 4 as he crossed Interstate-16 just north of Oak Park. The hail broke the windshield wipers on the sheriff's vehicle.
March 1999HailOak Park-A motorist reported slightly larger than 3/4 inch hail.

Every storm recorded in Emanuel 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lombard4.7 miles10
Lexsy7.7 miles10
Stillmore7.8 miles9
Wesley8.7 miles10
Nunez9.3 miles10
Kirby10.6 miles7
Covena11.7 miles9
Gary13.8 miles7

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 Oak ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2541889The 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 332536. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.