Oakdale, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Folkston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31537. It stands on Hatchers Branch. The Survey maps it on the Folkston quadrangle.

Oakdale within Charlton County

On record in Oakdale

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

William Mizell Sr. Houselisted 1997 · 0.8 miles away
Charlton County Courthouselisted 1980 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1918 USGS Folkston quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Folkston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Folkston quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

464 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 464 fires within 5 miles of Oakdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,601 acres in total. 77 started naturally. 81 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	208
Arson/incendiarism	81
Natural	77
Equipment and vehicle use	41
Railroad operations and maintenance	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHARLTON-011
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.6 acres	Florida Forest Service	TRACY ROAD (45)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oakdale: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Titanium, Zirconium, Thorium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Folkston Concentrator	REE, Titanium, Zirconium, Thorium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Charlton 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
Folkston	0.5 miles	11
Layton	1.3 miles	17
Pinehurst	1.8 miles	17
Homeland	2.1 miles	11
Camp Pinkney (historical)	2.3 miles	17
Centerville (historical)	2.8 miles	17
Ferry Landing	3.0 miles	11
Traders Hill	3.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 357775. 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.