Chamblee, Georgia
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Chamblee-Doraville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30341. The Survey maps it on the Chamblee quadrangle. 30,164 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.
On record in Chamblee
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
- Longview-Huntley Hills Historic Districtlisted 2017
Population over time
2 figuresChamblee grew from 9,892 to 30,164 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 | 9,892 | |
| 2020 | 30,164 | +20,272 (+205%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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 Chamblee quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Chamblee quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
17 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Chamblee between 1992 and 2005, burning about 77 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 July 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 May 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 May 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 May 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 April 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chamblee in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2011: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2009 | Hail | Chamblee | $2,500,000 | The public reported nickel to golf-ball sized hail across northern DeKalb county from Chamblee to Tucker. |
| July 2007 | Lightning | Chamblee | $200,000 | Local Atlanta broadcast media reported that a house was set on fire by a lightning strike on Oakland Trace near Oglethorpe University. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chamblee | $50,000 | The public reported that thunderstorm winds blew a large tree down onto a home near Chamblee causing damage to the home and an adjacent truck. |
| January 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chamblee | $5,000 | The public reported that several trees were blown down and a number of shingles were displaced from a roof on Cardinal Drive in Tucker. The public also reported that a considerable amount of leaf and pine cone debris was found in the area. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chamblee | $5,000 | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that thunderstorm winds blew down a number of trees onto power lines causing a number of power outages in the area. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chamblee | $4,000 | The public reported that thunderstorm winds knocked down three pine trees. They were about 2 feet in diameter and 80 to 100 feet tall. |
| August 2010 | Lightning | Chamblee | $500 | The DeKalb County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a tree causing the tree to split apart and fall. |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chamblee | $500 | A couple of large trees were downed by thunderstorm winds at Dresdon and Shallowford Roads near Interstate 85. |
| December 2008 | Heavy Rain | Chamblee | - | An amateur radio operator relayed a report of street and highway flooding on Interstate 85 at Shallowford Road. Water was reported to be eight to twelve inches deep on the interstate. Rainfall of 1.0 to 1.5 inches fell across much of western DeKalb county in about one hour as a line of heavy thunderstorms traversed the area during this time frame. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Chamblee | - | The public reported penny-sized hail. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Chamblee | - | The public reported quarter and half-dollar-sized hail in Tucker, a storm spotter reported nickel-sized hail in Decatur, and the public reported penny-sized hail near the DeKalb-Peachtree Airport. |
| December 2004 | Hail | Chamblee | - | A trained spotter for the National Weather Service reported penny-sized hail. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Chamblee | - | A storm spotter reported that a number of roads in the Chamblee area were flooded and impassable. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Chamblee | - | Several amateur radio reports of hail, ranging in size from quarters to golf balls, were received. Quarter to golf ball-sized hail were reported in and just south of Tucker, golf ball-sized hail in Chamblee, and quarter to half-dollar-sized hail in Clarkston. The public reported quarter to golf-ball sized hail just east of Decatur. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Chamblee | - | The public reported quarter size hail. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Chamblee | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doraville | 0.9 miles | 21 | |
| Northwoods | 1.2 miles | 21 | |
| Huntley Hill | 1.4 miles | 21 | |
| Humphries (historical) | 1.5 miles | 21 | |
| Plymouth Colony | 2.2 miles | 21 | |
| Cambridge Square | 2.3 miles | 21 | |
| Embry Hills | 2.4 miles | 21 | |
| Buchanan (historical) | 2.5 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 Chamblee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2527605 | 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 331371. 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.









