BlockOakland, Kentucky
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Adairville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42202. It stands on South Fork Red River. The Survey maps it on the Dot quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1951 USGS Dot quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Oakland (historical) in 1999, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smithgrove (historical) | 0.8 miles | 9 | |
| Schley | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Dot | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Adairville | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasant Grove (historical) | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Mortimer Station | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Parson Campground (historical) | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Keysburg | 4.5 miles | 6 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743088. 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.