Oak Grove, population: 11,793 is the
unincorporated community
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surrounding the area of southern
Cherokee County Cherokee County is the name of eight counties in the United States:
* Cherokee County, Alabama
* Cherokee County, Georgia
* Cherokee County, Iowa
* Cherokee County, Kansas
* Cherokee County, North Carolina
* Cherokee County, Oklahoma
* Cherokee Cou ...
,
Georgia, United States, near the intersection of Bells Ferry Road (former
Georgia 205) and
Georgia 92. Some maps instead center it at 92 and Wade Green Road, just to the west.
The name is no longer commonly used to refer to the surrounding area. The
United States Postal Service
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designated Oak Grove as part of
Acworth for mailing purposes with the creation of the
ZIP Code system in the 1960s, and the Oak Grove identity slowly began to disappear with suburbanization. The "Acworth" designation is despite being immediately west of
Woodstock
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(and closest to its main
post office
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), and not much further northeast of
Kennesaw.
The formerly
volunteer Oak Grove Fire Department is now part of the professional Cherokee County system. The only original vestiges remaining of the community are
Oak Grove Elementary School, one of the oldest in the state, and the Oak Grove Station of the United States Postal Service. Several neighborhoods near the school have Oak Grove in their names, but these are late arrivals and did not exist before the area was designated as Acworth by the United States Postal Service.
Unincorporated communities in Cherokee County, Georgia
Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state)
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