Oakhill, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Gainesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30507. The Survey maps it on the Gainesville quadrangle.

Oakhill within Hall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 15 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.

1891 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

286 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 286 fires within 5 miles of Oakhill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 526 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 44 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	151
Arson/incendiarism	44
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Smoking	10
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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
8 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HALL001
8 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	5.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HALL002
25 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-HALL-002
23 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hall County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oakhill: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Gainsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Hall County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hall 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
Frontier Trail	0.2 miles	15
Bailey	1.5 miles	15
Chestnut Oak Hills	1.6 miles	15
Jarrett	1.9 miles	14
Sugar Hill	2.5 miles	12
Fleetwood	2.8 miles	15
Camellia Heights	2.8 miles	15
Evergreen Heights	3.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1687021. 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.