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Oakland, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Smiths Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42159. It lies near Smiths Grove Knob. The Survey maps it on the Smiths Grove quadrangle. 198 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Oakland within Warren County

On record in Oakland

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Oakland fell from 225 to 198 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010225
2020198-27 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Oakland between 1999 and 2014, burning about 147 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/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
17 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOVING RD. FIRE
30 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryNOAH BLEDS
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony4.2 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE KNOB FIRE
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPIG ROAD
6 March 2002Recreation and ceremony21 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oakland: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bowling Green QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakland in 10 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2013Tornado (EF2)Oakland$400,000An EF-2 tornado touched down just to the east of Interstate 65 around 3 miles southwest of Smith's Grove. After damaging several outbuildings, it encountered a set of 4 grain silos just to the south of Glasgow Road. It destroyed all 4 silos and threw their remains several hundred yards to the east. The tornado stayed on the ground for 3 miles, eventually crossing Interstate 65 just south of Smith's Grove. This tornado overturned a semi-trailer on the interstate. Before lifting up just to the east of Smith's Grove, it destroyed an older wooden barn and a large well constructed dairy barn, ripping steel I-beams out of their concrete base, scattering its roof, and collapsing its southern and eastern cinder block walls.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindOakland$50,000Multiple structures were damaged due to severe thunderstorm winds.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindOakland$5,000Two trees were blown down damaging a garage on Goshen Church North Road.
May 2024HailOakland-Quarter sized hail was observed in Oakland in eastern Warren County.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindOakland-A barn was damaged due to severe thunderstorm winds.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindOakland-The public reported multiple structures sustained damage due to severe thunderstorm winds.
March 2013FloodOakland-The local media reported water covering Freeport Road in Bowling Green.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOakland-A tree was reported down near Oakland.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindOakland-Power lines were blown down at the intersection of US Highway 31W and Kentucky Highway 101.
May 2025HailOakland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Amos Farm (historical)1.5 miles24
Smithland (historical)2.1 miles15
Smiths Grove2.3 miles24
Tuckertown2.5 miles15
Loving2.7 miles15
Little Woodland (historical)3.0 miles24
Sunnyside3.3 miles15
Stoney Point (historical)4.0 miles24

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on OaklandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3180770The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 499732. 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.

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.