BlockBefore

Clarkston, Georgia

24 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 30021. The Survey maps it on the Stone Mountain quadrangle. 14,756 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Clarkston within DeKalb County

Population over time

2 figures

Clarkston grew from 7,554 to 14,756 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
20107,554
202014,756+7,202 (+95%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Clarkston between 1992 and 1999, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning1

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
7 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 1993Arson/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

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkston in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
July 1999LightningClarkston$200,000Lightning sparked fires at the Highland Villa apartments on Brockett Way and at the Park on Candler apartments. Two firemen were injured when the building collapsed on them at the Candler Road fire. At least 2 other fires in DeKalb county were caused by lightning strikes.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindClarkston$10,000The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, and all of the local Atlanta television stations reported that strong thunderstorm winds, and a possible microburst or downburst blew down several dozen large trees in the Decatur, Scottdale, Clarkston, and Tucker areas. Several power lines were brought down by the downed trees leaving up to 25,000 residents in the area without power for most of the night. Several thousand were even left without power until the next afternoon. Several roads were also blocked by the fallen trees, including Scott Boulevard at Clairmont Road, the Lawrenceville Highway at Clairmont Road, and on the Buford Highway Connector at Peachtree Street.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindClarkston$7,000Damage was reported at the Foxtrail apartments on North Indian Creek Road due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2008HailClarkston-Local law enforcement officers observed penny-sized hail near Clarkston.
September 2006HailClarkston-The public reported penny-sized hail.
February 1998HailClarkston-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
Montreal1.0 miles24
Oakengate1.3 miles24
Idlewood Acres1.4 miles24
Rehoboth1.7 miles21
Wilshire1.7 miles24
North DeKalb1.8 miles21
Scottdale1.9 miles21
Country Squire Acres1.9 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 ClarkstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2638470The 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 331411. 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.