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Avondale Estates, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Atlanta-Decatur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30002. The Survey maps it on the Northeast Atlanta quadrangle. 3,567 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.

Avondale Estates within DeKalb County

On record in Avondale Estates

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Avondale Estates grew from 2,960 to 3,567 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,960
20203,567+607 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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.

Fires near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Avondale Estates between 1993 and 2007, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 were 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
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
10 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 May 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 April 1999Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 March 1994Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 March 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avondale Estates in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2017: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Avondale Estates$15,000A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 70 MPH and a maximum path width of 80 yards touched down near Forest Glen Circle in central DeKalb County where it broke several large branches and uprooted a few trees. The tornado moved northeast crossing I-285, North Decatur Road, Dial Road and Greenridge Circle snapping or uprooting a few more trees before ending just past Greenridge Circle. [05/04/17: Tornado #2, County #1/1, EF-0, DeKalb, 2017:071].
July 2000Thunderstorm WindAvondale Estates$2,000The De Kalb county 911 center reported lots of trees down on Midway Road, Glenwood Avenue, and Columbia Drive in Avondale Estates; and two small trees down on Memorial Drive and North Hairston Road in Stone Mountain.
July 2011HailAvondale Estates-The public observed penny-sized hail near Avondale Estates.
April 2003HailAvondale Estates-A relative of a NWS employee reported mostly penny, but a few hailstones the size of a quarter on Memorial Drive at Interstate 285.
May 2003HailAvondale Estates-The public reported penny-sized hail.
May 2003HailAvondale Estates-The public reported quarter size hail.
August 1999HailAvondale Estates-A citizen reported dime size hail and tree limbs blown down onto the road.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ingleside0.7 miles21
Belvedere Park1.1 miles21
Scottdale1.3 miles21
Comfort Hill1.3 miles21
Decatur1.6 miles21
Clairmont Park1.8 miles21
East Lake Highlands2.2 miles21
East Lake2.4 miles21

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Avondale EstatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2090004The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331075. 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.