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.
Population over time
3 figuresOak 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 144 | |
| 2010 | 484 | |
| 2020 | 512 | +28 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Oak Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Vidalia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
316 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 160 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 94 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2021EMANUEL009 |
| 2 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-EMANUEL-020 |
| 15 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2012 | Hail | Oak Park | $55,000 | The Emanuel County 911 Center reported that golf ball sized hail occurred in Oak Park. |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Park | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Park | $2,000 | Emanuel county 911 reported several trees were knocked down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Park | $1,000 | The Emanuel county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Oak Park | - | Report of 1.5 inch sized hail near Harrington St and Oak Park Hwy. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Oak Park | - | The public observed penny-sized hail between Oak Park and Stillmore. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Oak 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 1999 | Hail | Oak Park | - | A motorist reported slightly larger than 3/4 inch hail. |
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.
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 Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2541889 | 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 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.





