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College Park, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the College Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30337. The Survey maps it on the Southwest Atlanta quadrangle. 13,930 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

College Park within Fulton County

On record in College Park

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

College Park fell from 13,942 to 13,930 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
201013,942
202013,930-12 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Old College Park City Hall, 3814 East Main Street, College Park, Fulton County, GA
Old College Park City Hall, 3814 East Main Street, College Park, Fulton County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of College Park between 1992 and 2016, burning about 133 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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/incendiarism20
Debris and open burning10
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
14 September 1993Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning7.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FULTON SOUTH-001
4 August 2007Smoking1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 1993Arson/incendiarism18 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of College Park: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ben Hill Div. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Forest Park QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Red Oak QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names College Park in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2011: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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 2000Thunderstorm WindCollege Park$8,000,000The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, along with public, numerous ham radio reports, and county 911 reports indicated that widespread and substantial damage was done by a thunderstorm with winds estimated at 60 to 65 mph. Hundreds of trees littered the roads and knocked down power lines across southern Fulton county, from just south of the Atlanta International Airport to the Fayette county line. Highway 279 was blocked for several hours with debris. Dozens of homes sustained roof and some structural damage as large trees, mostly pines, fell on them and two windows were damaged at one home in College Park. Six to eight vehicles were damaged along Old National Highway when large trees fell on them. Furthermore, a large 10 ft by 2 ft metal sign was blown down in Fairburn at the intersection of Interstate 85 and Georgia Highway 74.
August 2007LightningCollege Park$50,000The Fulton County 911 Center reported that a home in College Park was set on fire by a lightning strike. One power line in the area was also down, either the result of lightning or a wind gust.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCollege Park$10,000The Fulton County Emergency Management Director reported that power lines were down across many areas of the county. The worst damage was in the area approximately six miles south-southeast of Atlanta near Hapeville, Lakewood Park, and Grant Park.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCollege Park$2,000The Fulton County 911 Center reported that a power line was down and a couple of trees on the west side of College Park and near Fairburn.
January 2006Thunderstorm WindCollege Park$2,000The public reported that a number of trees were blown down.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindCollege Park$2,000The Fulton county Emergency Management Director reported that some power lines were blown down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCollege Park$1,000The public reported that strong thunderstorms winds blew the guttering off a house in College Park.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCollege Park$500The Fulton County 911 Center reported that a tree was blown down on a power line.
June 2007HailCollege Park-The public observed half-dollar-sized hail in the southeast corner of Fulton county near the Clayton county line.
July 2000HailCollege Park-The public reported golfball size hail.
September 1999HailCollege Park-The public reported dime size hail at a Hartsfield Airport parking lot. Another citizen reported numerous limbs down and power outages in Union City.
January 1995HailCollege Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Elmwood1.0 miles23
Eagan Park1.3 miles23
Jamestown Court1.6 miles23
East Point1.9 miles23
Hapeville2.1 miles23
Cooks Crossing2.3 miles23
Sun Valley2.4 miles23
Golden Acres2.4 miles23

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 College ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q388435The 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 331435. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.