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Oakland is a small home rule-class city in Warren County, Kentucky, about 12 miles northeast of Bowling Green, the county seat, and it is part of the Bowling Green metropolitan area.

The community was formally established with the completion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1859, and pioneer William Radford named it that year for its many oak trees.

From 1870 to 1900 Oakland was a railroad boomtown and a major shipping point for locally grown tobacco, grain, and livestock.

Oakland enjoyed its greatest prosperity as the major strawberry producing area of Kentucky from 1915 to 1950.

Although the settlement dates to the late 18th century as a farming community, Oakland was not incorporated as a city until 1977, and it is governed by a mayor and four commissioners under a commission form of government.

The population of Oakland was 198 at the 2020 census, down from 225 in 2010; the city counted 260 residents and 102 households at the 2000 census.

Oakland covers about 1.41 square miles, bordered by U.S. Route 68 on the south and extending north toward U.S. Route 31W, with Interstate 65 passing just south of the city and Smiths Grove lying just to the east.

Oakland and the neighboring Freeport community were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 as the Oakland-Freeport Historic District, recognized for early Warren County settlement, agriculture, African-American history, and architecture.

Freeport, just north of the railroad tracks from Oakland, was one of Warren County's historic African American communities developed after the Civil War, and it had its own two-room schoolhouse, the Woodland School.

Oakland's ZIP code is 42159, and the city maintains its own official website through the Commonwealth of Kentucky's kentucky.gov city portal.