Oakland, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the North Marion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31058. The Survey maps it on the Buena Vista NE quadrangle.

Oakland within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1950 USGS Buena Vista quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Buena Vista NE quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Buena Vista quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Buena Vista NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

339 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 339 fires within 5 miles of Oakland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,716 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 42 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	194
Arson/incendiarism	42
Natural	35
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Smoking	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Recreation and ceremony	6

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 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	6.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2016	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MARION-004
25 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MARION-010
23 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	5.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-MARION-004
20 September 2015	Debris and open burning	7.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-MARION-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakland in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Oakland	$25,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, GA concluded that an EF1 tornado had touched down approximately two miles north-northeast of Oakland in far northern Marion county and tracked northeast to a point about five miles northeast of Oakland in far northeast Marion county. The path length of the tornado was about 2.5 miles long with a maximum path width of 100 yards. The tornado roughly paralleled Fort Perry Road. Numerous trees were snapped off and a few were uprooted. One barn was destroyed and another had metal sheeting stripped off its roof. A mobile home was shifted off its foundation and one home lost a porch roof. Several fences were damaged by the wind or downed trees.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	$10,000	The Marion County Emergency Manager reported a mobile home damaged by thunderstorm winds in the Oakland community.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	$5,000	The Marion County 911 Center reported that many trees were down across the northern portion of the county near the Talbot county line.
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	$2,000	no account filed
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	$1,000	The Marion County 911 center reported two trees blown down in Oakland.
March 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	$250	The Flint River Regional 911 Center reported that a tree had blown down on Woody Stubbs Road.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	-	Marion County weather station.
June 2011	Hail	Oakland	-	The public observed quarter-sized hail near Oakland. WSR-88D radar data suggests that similar-sized hail likely continued to a point a few miles east-northeast of Oakland near the Taylor county line and the city of Mauk.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Lancaster (historical)	3.4 miles	15
Blueville	3.5 miles	8
Five Points	4.9 miles	8
Brantley	6.1 miles	11
Juniper	6.2 miles	15
Tazewell	7.4 miles	8
Union	9.0 miles	13
Buena Vista	9.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 344111. 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.