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Oscarville, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Cumming census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30506. It stands on Twomile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Flowery Branch quadrangle.

Oscarville within Forsyth County

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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Oscarville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 235 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 40 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 burning79
Arson/incendiarism40
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural5

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
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HALL003
21 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-HALL-002
14 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-HALL-002
26 August 1993Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Forsyth 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 Oscarville: 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
Banks PropertyGoldPast ProducerVein
Muddy Creek ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Forsyth County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oscarville in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning. 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindOscarville$100,000The Forsyth County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and power lines blown down and damage to a couple of boat docks and outbuildings on the northwest shore of Lake Lanier.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindOscarville$4,000The Forsyth County Emergency Management Director reported that three trees and a couple of power lines were down near Georgia Highway 369 and the town of Oscarville.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindOscarville$3,000The Forsyth county Assistant Emergency Management Director reported that several trees were down on power lines.
July 2017LightningOscarville$1,000The Forsyth County Emergency Manager reported a home struck by lightning on Flowery Branch Road. No fire was found.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindOscarville$500The public reported that a thunderstorm downburst snapped off two large trees, one 70-feet tall and the other 50-feet tall in the Norwalk Subdivision just off Georgia Highway 369 west of Oscarville. The yard was also covered with many downed tree limbs.
August 2020HailOscarville-The public reported hail the size of quarters on Highway 369 near the Lake Lanier Bridge.
June 2001HailOscarville-The Forsyth County 911 center reported dime size hail on Georgia Highway 53 about one mile east-northeast of Chestatee.
May 1996HailOscarville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Forsyth 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
Chestatee3.4 miles14
Coal Mountain6.9 miles19
Dunn8.1 miles21
Pirkle Woods8.4 miles21
Cumming9.2 miles21
Matt10.1 miles22
Drew13.3 miles21
Mars Hill Crossroads13.3 miles21

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 OscarvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q124619726The 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 326442. 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.