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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.

Chamblee within DeKalb County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Chamblee 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.

YearPeople Change
20109,892
202030,164+20,272 (+205%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

17 since 1992

Regional 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 use5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
15 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1993Recreation and ceremony1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 May 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 May 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 1994Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2009HailChamblee$2,500,000The public reported nickel to golf-ball sized hail across northern DeKalb county from Chamblee to Tucker.
July 2007LightningChamblee$200,000Local Atlanta broadcast media reported that a house was set on fire by a lightning strike on Oakland Trace near Oglethorpe University.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindChamblee$50,000The 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 2006Thunderstorm WindChamblee$5,000The 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 2004Thunderstorm WindChamblee$5,000The 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 1997Thunderstorm WindChamblee$4,000The public reported that thunderstorm winds knocked down three pine trees. They were about 2 feet in diameter and 80 to 100 feet tall.
August 2010LightningChamblee$500The DeKalb County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a tree causing the tree to split apart and fall.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindChamblee$500A couple of large trees were downed by thunderstorm winds at Dresdon and Shallowford Roads near Interstate 85.
December 2008Heavy RainChamblee-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 2008HailChamblee-The public reported penny-sized hail.
February 2005HailChamblee-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 2004HailChamblee-A trained spotter for the National Weather Service reported penny-sized hail.
July 2003Flash FloodChamblee-A storm spotter reported that a number of roads in the Chamblee area were flooded and impassable.
May 2003HailChamblee-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 1999HailChamblee-The public reported quarter size hail.
April 1998HailChamblee-no account filed

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
Doraville0.9 miles21
Northwoods1.2 miles21
Huntley Hill1.4 miles21
Humphries (historical)1.5 miles21
Plymouth Colony2.2 miles21
Cambridge Square2.3 miles21
Embry Hills2.4 miles21
Buchanan (historical)2.5 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 ChambleeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2527605The 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.