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Southern Oaks, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Woodstock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30188. It stands on Badger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mountain Park quadrangle.

Southern Oaks within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

350 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 350 fires within 5 miles of Southern Oaks between 1992 and 2017, burning about 654 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 80 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 burning120
Arson/incendiarism80
Misuse of fire by a minor48
Railroad operations and maintenance40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony15
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking7
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 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CHEROKEE-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Southern Oaks: 14 past producers, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, 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
Bailey PropertyGoldPast Producer1840
Cherokee MineGoldPast Producer
M.D. SmithGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Putnam MineGoldPast Producer
Three-O-One MineGoldPast Producer
Van ProspectGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Worley MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Worley MineGoldPast Producer
Daniels ProspectMicaProspect
Dean MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Sunny Brook0.4 miles23
Farmington0.6 miles23
Little River Crossing0.7 miles23
Mill Creek Crossing0.7 miles23
Little River North1.0 miles23
Bluff Creek1.1 miles23
Little River South1.2 miles23
Andersonville1.3 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1705119. 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.