Oaklawn, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It lies in ZIP code area 30263. The Survey maps it on the Newnan South quadrangle.

Oaklawn within Coweta County

On record in Oaklawn

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.

Gordon-Banks Houselisted 1972 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Newnan South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

312 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 312 fires within 5 miles of Oaklawn between 1992 and 2019, burning about 754 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 39 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	178
Arson/incendiarism	39
Misuse of fire by a minor	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	7

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
9 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-COWETA-005
29 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-COWETA-004
12 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-COWETA-006
10 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coweta 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 Oaklawn: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite. 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
	B D Cole Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
	Lyndon Hill Quarry	Granite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Coweta 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
East Newnan	1.5 miles	10
Stephens Crossroad	2.7 miles	10
Moreland	3.1 miles	10
Smokey Acres	3.1 miles	10
Cureton Springs (historical)	3.5 miles	10
Raymond	3.6 miles	9
Pine Hills	3.6 miles	10
Newnan	3.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332550. 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.