River Oak, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Snellville-Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30044. It stands on Sweetwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Luxomni quadrangle.

River Oak within Gwinnett County

On record in River Oak

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Hudson-Nash House and Cemeterylisted 1990 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Luxomni quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Luxomni quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Luxomni quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of River Oak between 1992 and 2007, burning about 188 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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
Arson/incendiarism	32
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GWINNETT-005
2 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	22 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GWINNETT-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gwinnett 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
Five Forks	0.5 miles	21
Yellow River (historical)	1.2 miles	22
Ansley Brook	1.2 miles	21
Emerald Forest	1.4 miles	21
Coopers Pond	1.4 miles	21
Gloster	1.5 miles	21
Rivermist	1.6 miles	22
Country Square	1.7 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1688330. 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.