Oak Grove, Georgia

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Oak Grove, Georgia, is the unincorporated community surrounding the area of south Cherokee County near the intersection of Bells Ferry Road (State Route 205) and State Route 92. The name is no longer commonly used to refer to the surrounding area. The Post Office 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. 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 didn't exist before the area was designanted Acworth by the United States Postal Service.