Red Oak Georgia Map

About Red Oak, Georgia

Red Oak is a locality in Heard County, Georgia, United States. Red Oak is located at 33.5232°N, 84.2702°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 30217, 30281, 30272.

Red Oak occupies a stubborn stretch of red-clay piedmont where the earth holds the heat of the afternoon long after the sun has retreated. It lies 19.2 miles southwest of Carrollton, GA (from Carrollton, GA: bearing 214°T), and is situated 15.1 miles north-northeast of Roanoke. The landscape here is defined by the slow, deliberate turn of the land toward Hillabahatchee Creek, which carves a quiet path through the thickets and pines just a mile away. To the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of Backbone Ridge marks the horizon, a distant boundary that keeps the world feeling contained and orderly. The light at dusk settles over the fields in a bruised, heavy gold, catching the dust kicked up by the evening commute and turning the atmosphere into something thick enough to hold. Four miles away, the quiet grounds of Hoyt Rogers Park offer a sanctuary of shade, while the waters of Moores Pond remain a stagnant, reflective mirror for the surrounding timber.

Red Oak grew from the necessity of the soil, an economy long tethered to the cycles of peach and pecan harvests that once dictated the pulse of the local calendar. History here is not written in grand monuments but in the rusted iron of old implements and the stubborn persistence of kudzu reclaiming the abandoned edges of property lines. The pace of life in Red Oak maintains a gravity of its own, indifferent to the frantic sprawl of the nearby metropolis, favoring instead the slow accumulation of seasons and the quiet maintenance of family plots. Those seeking the sudden, cold spray of water must travel nine miles to find the High Shoals Falls, leaving the immediate vicinity to its own humid, terrestrial stillness. Everything about the character of Red Oak suggests a place that has learned to wait, observing the passage of time without feeling the need to hurry along with it.

About This Red Oak Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Red Oak, Georgia. Coordinates: 33.523168, -84.270199. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Red Oak includes the ZIP code (30217, 30281, 30272), telephone area code (404, 470, 678), county seat of Heard County (Franklin), and school district assignment.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.