Ola, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the McDonough census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30252. The Survey maps it on the Ola quadrangle.

Ola within Henry County

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
1964 USGS Ola quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

186 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Ola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 593 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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	109
Arson/incendiarism	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	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
9 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	9.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ola in 13 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ola	$22,000	Reports of 22 trees down and power outages across Henry County.
April 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Ola	$20,000	A National Weather Service survey team determined that a weak EF-0 tornado touched down at Turner Church Road and North Ola Road. A tree was downed at that location. The tornado then lifted and touched down in the Sleepy Hollow subdivision where most of its damage occurred. Five houses had damaged siding, six trees were downed and an outbuilding had damage to its roof. The tornado lifted just east of the subdivision. Eyewitnesses reported rotation and that they received the warning in plenty of time to seek shelter.\|[04/28/13: Tornado #2, County #1-1, EF0, Henry, 2013:010].
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ola	$8,000	The Henry County Emergency Manager reported a few trees and power lines blown down along Coan Drive from Old Jackson Road to Seabolt Road.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Ola	$5,000	Multiple trees downed on upchurch road .
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Ola	$3,000	Several trees down along hwy 81 east of the keys ferry road intersection.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ola	$2,000	The Henry county 911 center reported that numerous trees were blown down near the intersection of Georgia Highway 81 and Keys Ferry Street. The public reported that two large pine trees were blown down in McDonough on Daley Mill Road.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Ola	$1,000	Em reports tree down at jackson lake rd and live oak dr.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ola	$1,000	Tree down at south ola rd and new hope rd .
September 2019	Hail	Ola	-	A photo was shared on social media of hail the size of quarters at the intersection of Highway 81 and Jackson Lake Road.
June 2017	Heavy Rain	Ola	-	The USGS precipitation gage located at the South River at Snapping Shoals reported 4.76 inches of rain for the 24-hour period ending at 9:30 PM EST.
June 2016	Hail	Ola	-	The Henry County 911 center reported quarter sized hail near Ola.
April 2008	Hail	Ola	-	The public observed penny-sized hail in far southeast Henry county. Several small tree limbs were also blown down.
June 2002	Hail	Ola	-	The Henry county 911 center and the public reported dime to nickel size hail in Locust Grove and Ola.

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Union	3.4 miles	11
Unity Grove	4.4 miles	10
Peeksville	4.4 miles	10
Woodstown (historical)	4.5 miles	11
Leadmore	4.9 miles	11
Julia	5.5 miles	18
McDonough	5.6 miles	11
Blacksville	5.7 miles	11

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 Ola	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7082833	The 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 326437. 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.