West Oak, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Macon West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31210. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Macon West quadrangle.

West Oak within Bibb County

On record in West 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.

Georgia Industrial Homelisted 2019 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1956 USGS Macon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Macon West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of West Oak between 1992 and 2020, burning about 467 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 49 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	49
Debris and open burning	43
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	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
8 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BIBB-001
4 September 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021BIBB002
30 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BIBB001
24 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BIBB-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb 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
Meadowbrook	0.4 miles	14
Green Lawn Acres	0.5 miles	14
Briarwood Hill	1.1 miles	14
Brookhaven	1.2 miles	14
Crestwell Heights	1.2 miles	14
Lumberhill	1.3 miles	14
Green Meadows	1.4 miles	14
Westminister	1.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672344. 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.