Oakton, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Clinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42031. The Survey maps it on the Oakton quadrangle.

Oakton within Hickman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1939 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1951 USGS Oakton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1970 USGS Oakton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Oakton between 1998 and 2012, burning about 10 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	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
28 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 February 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	UPPER ROA
5 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 November 2010	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BURCHAM LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hickman County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakton in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 tornado, 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 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Oakton	$350,000	Multiple trees were snapped. Many tree branches and some trees fell on multiple homes, which inflicted damage. At one point there were 65 trees covering main and secondary roads across the county. All main roads were back open on the afternoon of the 4th, and crews then focused on secondary roads. Many roads were closed as cleanup continued. Emergency management reported 28 residential structures had some form of damage, and a dozen commercial structures were damaged as well. These included farming structures and equipment. One family was displaced from their mobile home because of damage from a fallen tree. A county state of emergency was declared. Peak winds were estimated near 105 mph.
April 2014	Flash Flood	Oakton	$40,000	Major flash flooding of roads was reported in the Clinton area. Cars were washed into ditches. Emergency vehicles were dispatched to assist stranded motorists.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakton	$30,000	The roofs were blown off two chicken houses on Highway 123.
April 2018	Tornado (EF1)	Oakton	$20,000	This brief tornado occurred along the west side of Kentucky Highway 58. Trees were snapped and uprooted. A roof was lifted off a barn and thrown 50 feet into some woods. A metal roof was peeled back on a house. A rotten tree fell on a mobile home and destroyed it. Peak winds were estimated near 100 mph.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakton	$2,000	no account filed
February 2003	Heavy Rain	Oakton	-	Kentucky Route 123 at Obion Creek near Oakton was closed after heavy rain drove the creek out of its banks and over the road.
April 2005	Hail	Oakton	-	no account filed
October 2003	Heavy Rain	Oakton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hickman 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
Scott	1.6 miles	18
Hailwell	2.2 miles	18
Whaynes Corner	3.0 miles	18
Zion (historical)	3.6 miles	18
Midway (historical)	3.9 miles	18
Clinton	3.9 miles	10
New Chapel (historical)	4.0 miles	18
Moscow	4.2 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 499754. 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.

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.