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Oakwood, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Oakwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30566. The Survey maps it on the Flowery Branch quadrangle. 4,822 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,158 feet above sea level.

Oakwood within Hall County

Population over time

2 figures

Oakwood grew from 3,970 to 4,822 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20103,970
20204,822+852 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

231 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Oakwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 394 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 47 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 burning91
Arson/incendiarism47
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking12
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HALL-003
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HALL003
24 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-HALL-002
18 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot 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 Oakwood: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Muddy Creek ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Vickers ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Hall County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakwood in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 1998LightningOakwood$120,000Fires caused by lightning strikes destroyed one home on Stacy Drive and damaged three othersin south Hall county.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOakwood$50,000The public, as well as the local Gainesville newspaper, reported that a number of trees, some very large, were blown down around the county, especially in the Oakwood and Flowery Branch areas. Several power lines were knocked down by the fallen trees. Two homes in the southern part of the county sustained damage when large trees, one of them 65-feet tall, fell on the homes. Other reports from the public indicated that shingles were removed from the the roofs of some homes. Over 7000 people in the county were left without power for several hours following the thunderstorm.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindOakwood$30,000The public reported a large tree blown down on a house in the Oakwood area.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindOakwood$6,000The Hall County 911 center reported several trees blown down from Oakwood to east of Murrayville. Locations include Oak Street in Oakwood where two trees were downed, near the intersection of Twin Oaks Lane and Oakfield Court in Murrayville, and near the intersection of Mt. Vernon Road and Buckhorn Road.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindOakwood$6,000The Hall County 911 Center reported numerous trees down, 3 residences damaged and traffic lights out in the Oakwood area.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindOakwood$5,000Several trees reported down between Flowery Branch and Oakwood, extending east along Poplar Springs Road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOakwood$1,000Tree down along the 4100 block of Railroad Street.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindOakwood$1,000Tree down at Chamblee Road and W White Road .
December 2024Thunderstorm WindOakwood$1,000Powerline down across roadway on 4800 block of Holiday Villa Dr.
April 2025HailOakwood-Quarter sized hail reported along flat creek road.
February 2012HailOakwood-The public reported that nickel to quarter size hail occurred for approximately ten minutes in the Oakwood area.
May 2006HailOakwood-The public reported nickel-sized hail.
July 2003HailOakwood-The public reported quarter-sized hail.
August 2000HailOakwood-The Hall county 911 center reported dime size hail.
May 1999HailOakwood-The public reported dime size hail.
May 1998Funnel CloudOakwood-Hall county 911 received separate public reports of funnel clouds near Oakwood and near the intersection of State Road 60 and Nancy Creek Road.
June 1997HailOakwood-no account filed
May 1996HailOakwood-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Vista Brook0.4 miles16
Quail Run0.4 miles16
Briarwood0.7 miles15
Bentwood0.9 miles16
Blackshear Place1.3 miles15
Holiday Meadows1.4 miles16
Southgate1.4 miles16
Holiday Villa1.4 miles16

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 OakwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1895174The 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 319873. 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.

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.