Oasis, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Higdon-Mobile census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30513. It lies near Higdon Cove. The Survey maps it on the Epworth quadrangle.

Oasis within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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.

1888 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1911 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1935 USGS Epworth quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Epworth quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1942 USGS Epworth quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Epworth quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Oasis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28,227 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 18 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	77
Arson/incendiarism	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
16 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	CASHES VALLEY
28 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2002	Debris and open burning	5.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-FANNIN-001
22 July 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 June 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	FLAT TOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Oasis: 4 prospects, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sulfur, Copper, Copper, Iron-Pyrite, Copper, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mine No. 20	Copper, Iron-Pyrite	Occurrence	Massive Sulfide
Mobile	Copper, Sulfur	Past Producer	1858
Mount Pisgah Prospect	Sulfur, Copper	Occurrence	Massive Sulfide
Bryant Prospect	Copper	Prospect
Kellogg Prospect	Copper	Prospect
Mount Pisgah Copper Prospect	Copper	Prospect
Patterson Prospect	Copper	Prospect
Shaffer Mine	Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oasis in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2015: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Oasis	$5,000	The News Observer of Blue Ridge reported that a number of trees were blown down across the county. In addition, four power poles were also broken by high winds in various spots across the county. Much of the power line damage occurred in the Ballewtown Road and Pleasant Hill areas.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Oasis	$2,000	The Fannin County 911 Center reported that six trees were blown down on secondary roads in the western part of the county, roughly six to eight miles northwest of Blue Ridge.
March 2015	Hail	Oasis	-	A CoCoRaHS observer reported pea to quarter sized hail north of Higdon.
May 2009	Hail	Oasis	-	A CoCoRaHS observer reported nickel-sized hail near Oasis in northwest Fannin county.
May 2006	Hail	Oasis	-	Several reports of pennies to half-dollar-sized hail were received from the public as a severe thunderstorm produced a large swath of hail as it tracked from the northwest corner to the southeast corner of the county. Half-dollar sized hail was reported west of Epworth and in the Mobile area, with quarter-sized hail in Blue Ridge and south of Blue Ridge near Dial and Margret. At some locations, the hail fell for up to 10 minutes at the same location, particularly in the areas north and west of Blue Ridge in the Gravley Gap and Epworth areas. A few tree limbs were also blown down in the Blue Ridge area.

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Colwell	1.4 miles	21
Dunn	2.3 miles	21
Jones Mill (historical)	2.3 miles	24
Higdon	2.6 miles	21
Madola	2.9 miles	21
Lickskillet	3.7 miles	21
Chestnut Gap	3.9 miles	21
Pierceville	5.2 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332552. 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.