BlockFrom the record
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Meriwether County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Oakland
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. GA 41, Warm Springs, 30293
- When was it listed? June 1982
- Category. building
- Census division. Warm Springs
- National Register reference number. 82002455 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
167 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Oakland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 605 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 22 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 | 96 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
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 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020MERIWETHER004 |
| 9 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-MERIWETHER-006 |
| 10 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-MERIWETHER-005 |
| 10 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Oakland: 4 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Rock Prospect | Granite | Occurrence | ||
| Harris City Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Snelson Mine | Mica | Past Producer | ||
| Warm Springs Bauxite | Kaolin | Past Producer | 1910, 1915 | |
| Prospect | Aluminum | Prospect | ||
| Red Bauxite Outcrop | Aluminum | Occurrence | ||
| Republic Mine | Aluminum | Past Producer | ||
| Smith Prospect No. 1 | Aluminum | Prospect | ||
| Smith Prospect No. 2 | Aluminum | Prospect | ||
| Turner Prospect | Aluminum | Prospect |
Storms near this property
1 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warm Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1993 | Hail | Warm Springs | $500,000 | Several cars and residential roofing were damaged in the city of Warm Springs from quarter-sized hail. |
Newspapers printed here
5,542 digitised pages2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,102 issues, 5,542 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Warm Springs Mirror | 1931 to 1954 |
| The Warm Springs Advertiser | 1930 to 1931 |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Eleanor Roosevelt School | 2.3 miles | 2010 |
 | Roosevelt's Little White House, Pools | 2.7 miles | 1974 |
| Bulloch Family House | 2.9 miles | 2002 | |
| Benjamin F. Bulloch House | 3.2 miles | 1994 | |
| Mark Hall | 3.6 miles | 1973 | |
 | Render Family Homestead | 5.9 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82002455 in Record Group 79. |
| Meriwether County | All 24 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.