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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.

Doraville within DeKalb County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Doraville 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.

YearPeople Change
20108,330
202010,623+2,293 (+28%)

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

25 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
26 July 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2009LightningDoraville$300,000WSB 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 2015Flash FloodDoraville$150,000A 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 2014Flash FloodDoraville$3,000The 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 1997Thunderstorm WindDoraville$3,000Several trees were knocked down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDoraville$1,000A tree was downed in the 4000 block of N Shallowford Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDoraville$1,000Tree down on Regalwoods Drive between Northcrest Road and Summitridge Drive.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindDoraville$250The broadcast media relayed a report of a tree down on Presidential Drive.
January 2023Flash FloodDoraville-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 2020Flash FloodDoraville-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 2019HailDoraville-A report of quarter size hail at the intersection of I-85 and I-285 was received over social media.
April 2003LightningDoraville-The Gwinnett Daily Post of Lawrenceville reported that lightning struck a home on Park Road. However, no monetary damage was suffered.
May 2003HailDoraville-An amateur radio operator reported penny-sized hail.
May 2002HailDoraville-The public reported nickel size hail in Doraville and dime size hail in Tucker.
July 1997HailDoraville-Dime sized hail fell.
May 1998HailDoraville-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
Chamblee0.9 miles21
Cambridge Square1.3 miles21
Northwoods1.4 miles21
Huntley Hill1.5 miles21
Buchanan (historical)1.6 miles21
Embry Hills1.9 miles21
Humphries (historical)2.4 miles21
Habersham2.7 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 DoravilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2111734The 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.