Oakland, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bluffton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39824. The Survey maps it on the Bluffton quadrangle.

Oakland within Clay County

On record in Oakland

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 1 record

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

Warren Sutton Houselisted 1994 · 0.8 miles away

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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Oakland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 578 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 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	90
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-CALHOUN-001
2 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	3.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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
Suttons Corner	0.9 miles	7
Bellville	2.8 miles	7
Jeff	2.9 miles	7
Harrisons Mill	3.4 miles	7
Bluffton	4.6 miles	7
Zetto	4.7 miles	7
Jones Crossing	7.6 miles	7
Pecan	8.5 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 344830. 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.