Oakfield, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Warwick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31772. The Survey maps it on the Warwick quadrangle. It stands 269 feet above sea level.

Oakfield within Worth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Photographs

1 photograph, 1977

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Oakfield, Georgia; H.W. Garrett at Doerun Courier, Doerun, Georgia; J.B. Green, Hartsfield, Georgia; Mauldin and Saunders homes, Worth County, Georgia
Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin), 1940- (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Oakfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,256 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 14 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	110
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	8
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1992	Debris and open burning	5.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WORTH-006
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WORTH-005
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-WORTH-004
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakfield in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. 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
April 2016	Flood	Oakfield	$20,000	The Worth County E-911 facebook page reported that Hall Rd at Davis Mill Rd as well as Hamilton Hill Rd between Cuffie Town Rd and Jody Hoby Rd were washed out. Damage was estimated.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakfield	$6,000	The Worth county 911 center reported nine trees and two power lines down across the northern part of the county including along portions of state routes 300 and 313. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakfield	$1,000	Numerous trees were blown down in Oakfield.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakfield	$500	A few trees and power lines were down near the intersection of State Road 32 and Highway 300.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakfield	-	Large tree limbs were blown down onto Highway 313 in both direction at Davis Mill Road, blocking all lanes.
March 2020	Flood	Oakfield	-	Railroad Street in Oakfield was closed due to flooding.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakfield	-	Trees were blown down on Highway 32 near Mile Marker 8.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakfield	-	Trees, power lines, and street signs were blown down near County Road 300 in Oakfield.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakfield	-	A couple of trees were blown down near Georgia Highway 300.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakfield	-	A tree was blown down on Railroad Street.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakfield	-	A tree was blown down in Oakfield.

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Pindertown (historical)	2.0 miles	7
Davis Mill	3.0 miles	7
Warwick	4.6 miles	7
Acorn Pond	6.5 miles	7
Aultmans (historical)	6.8 miles	9
Blue Spring (historical)	6.9 miles	9
Doles	7.1 miles	9
Cuffietown	8.7 miles	10

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 Oakfield	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058910	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 332541. 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.