Doraville, 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 30340. It stands on Northwoods Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chamblee quadrangle. 10,623 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,073 feet above sea level.
On record in Doraville
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 2 records
Northwoods Historic Districtlisted 2014- Northcrest Historic Districtlisted 2017
Population over time
2 figuresDoraville grew from 8,330 to 10,623 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 | 8,330 | |
| 2020 | 10,623 | +2,293 (+28%) |
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
25 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Doraville between 1992 and 2005, burning about 84 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| 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 |
| 26 July 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | 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 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doraville in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Lightning | Doraville | $300,000 | WSB Television of Atlanta reported that lightning strikes resulted in two house fires in the Chamblee and Tucker area of northern DeKalb county. A two story home on Beacon Court and another two-story home on Laurel Post Court both suffered extensive damage from lightning-related fires. |
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Doraville | $150,000 | A USGS stream gauge on North Fork Peachtree Creek at Buford Highway or Georgia Highway 13 near Atlanta reached flood stage of 13 feet. The creek crest at 14.8 feet. Significant flooding occurred upstream and downstream from the gauge. Large portions of the backyards of residential homes on Victory Drive...Dunwoody Place and Converse Drive flooded with around two feet of water. A portion of the Sun Tan Center parking lot near the gauge flooded. A few roads and culverts in the area were damaged or washed out. |
| January 2014 | Flash Flood | Doraville | $3,000 | The stage height of a USGS stream gage on the North Fork Peachtree Creek at Buford Highway reached flood stage of 13 feet. The creek crest at 13.1 feet. Minor flooding occurred in the low portions of residential backyards off of Victory Drive, Dunwoody Place and Converse Drive. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doraville | $3,000 | Several trees were knocked down. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doraville | $1,000 | A tree was downed in the 4000 block of N Shallowford Road. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doraville | $1,000 | Tree down on Regalwoods Drive between Northcrest Road and Summitridge Drive. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doraville | $250 | The broadcast media relayed a report of a tree down on Presidential Drive. |
| January 2023 | Flash Flood | Doraville | - | Broadcast Media reported the right lanes blocked on Interstate 285 at Peachtree Industrial Blvd due to water over the roadway. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 4 inches of rain fell quickly over the area, resulting in the flash flooding. |
| August 2020 | Flash Flood | Doraville | - | The broadcast media reported flooding of both lanes of Peachtree Boulevard, near the intersection with Broad Street. The water reached halfway up the tires of cars driving by. |Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 4 inches of rain occurred in the area. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Doraville | - | A report of quarter size hail at the intersection of I-85 and I-285 was received over social media. |
| April 2003 | Lightning | Doraville | - | The Gwinnett Daily Post of Lawrenceville reported that lightning struck a home on Park Road. However, no monetary damage was suffered. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Doraville | - | An amateur radio operator reported penny-sized hail. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Doraville | - | The public reported nickel size hail in Doraville and dime size hail in Tucker. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Doraville | - | Dime sized hail fell. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Doraville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chamblee | 0.9 miles | 21 | |
| Cambridge Square | 1.3 miles | 21 | |
| Northwoods | 1.4 miles | 21 | |
| Huntley Hill | 1.5 miles | 21 | |
| Buchanan (historical) | 1.6 miles | 21 | |
| Embry Hills | 1.9 miles | 21 | |
| Humphries (historical) | 2.4 miles | 21 | |
| Habersham | 2.7 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 Doraville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2111734 | 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 325924. 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.









