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Oakman, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Redbud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30734. The Survey maps it on the Oakman quadrangle. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Oakman within Gordon County

On record in Oakman

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

247 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 247 fires within 5 miles of Oakman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,236 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 83 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 burning103
Arson/incendiarism83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural8
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning7.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning22 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestCHICKEN CREEK
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-GORDON-015
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-GORDON-016
23 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakman in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2006: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003Flash FloodOakman$50,000The Gordon county 911 center reported that a number of roads across the eastern portion of the county were flooded and impassable. Rainfall of three to seven inches in a three hour or less period had occurred. Water was flowing over U.S. 411 at Oakman. One road in the eastern portion of the county was completely washed out. One person had to be rescued from flood waters in the eastern portion of the county. Lick Creek, Redbud Creek, and Dry Creek all quickly rose into flood stage.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOakman$5,000The Gordon county 911 center reported that several trees were down near the Murray county line, just east of Petersburg, near the intersection of U.S. Highway 411 and Georgia Highway 136.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOakman$5,000The Gordon county 911 center reported that a number of trees were down across the eastern portion of the county.
May 2006HailOakman-The Oakman Post Office reported several waves of penny-sized hail.
April 2005HailOakman-The public reported quarter-sized hail.
August 2004HailOakman-The public reported nickel-sized hail.
July 2003HailOakman-Numerous reports of hail were received from the public in several areas of the county. The public reported golf ball-sized hail in Fairmount, quarter-sized hail in Calhoun and southwest of Calhoun, with penny-sized hail east of Calhoun, southwest of Calhoun and just east of Petersburg.
April 2003HailOakman-The public reported nickel-sized hail at the intersection of U.S. Highway 411 and Red Bud Road in the Colima community, south of Oakman. Street flooding was also reported in this area.

Every storm recorded in Gordon 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Petersburg1.5 miles19
Colima1.6 miles19
Wheeler (historical)2.1 miles19
Buff (historical)4.5 miles18
Ranger4.5 miles19
Coosawattee (historical)4.5 miles18
Igo (historical)5.8 miles19
Audubon5.9 miles18

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 OakmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987359The 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 319868. 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.