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.
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
- Avondale Estates Historic Districtlisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresAvondale 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,960 | |
| 2020 | 3,567 | +607 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
- 1890 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Northeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Northeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Northeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
15 since 1993Regional 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/incendiarism | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 August 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 July 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 July 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 May 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 April 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 March 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 March 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Avondale Estates | $15,000 | A 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avondale Estates | $2,000 | The 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 2011 | Hail | Avondale Estates | - | The public observed penny-sized hail near Avondale Estates. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Avondale 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 2003 | Hail | Avondale Estates | - | The public reported penny-sized hail. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Avondale Estates | - | The public reported quarter size hail. |
| August 1999 | Hail | Avondale Estates | - | A citizen reported dime size hail and tree limbs blown down onto the road. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ingleside | 0.7 miles | 21 | |
| Belvedere Park | 1.1 miles | 21 | |
| Scottdale | 1.3 miles | 21 | |
| Comfort Hill | 1.3 miles | 21 | |
| Decatur | 1.6 miles | 21 | |
| Clairmont Park | 1.8 miles | 21 | |
| East Lake Highlands | 2.2 miles | 21 | |
| East Lake | 2.4 miles | 21 |
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 Estates | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2090004 | The 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.











