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Hapeville, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30354. The Survey maps it on the Southwest Atlanta quadrangle. 6,553 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.

Hapeville within Fulton County

On record in Hapeville

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

3 figures

Hapeville grew from 79 to 6,553 between 1880 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
188079
20106,373
20206,553+180 (+3%)

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.

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Hapeville between 1992 and 2016, burning about 132 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Debris and open burning4
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2

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
22 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia 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 1999Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresGeorgia 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
1 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hapeville: 1 producer. 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
Forest Park QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hapeville in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHapeville5 hurtReports of a large tree downed onto a home in the 2700 block of Grand Avenue.
March 2008HailHapeville$1,500,000The public observed half-dollar to golf ball-sized hail in the Hapeville and College Park areas just west and southwest of Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
June 2009FloodHapeville$20,000The Fulton County Emergency Management Director reported that heavy rain resulted in a small unnamed tributary, located just west of Interstate 85 and between Georgia Highway 166/Langford Parkway and Langston Drive, rising out of its banks and flooding an adjacent home. The flooding to the home was confined to the yard, crawl space, garage, and a parked car. Further examination determined that the flooding was the result of a collapsed culvert pipe casued by heavy runoff and debris buildup in the area.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHapeville$15,000Emergency Manager reported numerous trees down in south Atlanta, East Point, Hapeville, and surrounding communities. Locations include Grant St and Nolan St, 7th St and 3rd Ave, Memorial dr and East Side Ave, I-285 SB and Campellton Rd SW, Cascade Rd and Lynhurst Dr, and Jefferson Ave SE and Quaker Street.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHapeville$2,000Report of two trees down and one tree on a house in hapeville.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHapeville$1,000Emergency manager reported a tree down along Connell Ave SW.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindHapeville$1,000Fulton county 911 reported trees down in south Fulton county.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindHapeville-The Emergency Manager reported a roof collapse at a building along Empire Blvd.
May 2012HailHapeville-The Broadcast Media and the public reported that dime to quarter sized hail fell from Langford Parkway, south of Downtown Atlanta, to Lakewood Heights.
April 1998HailHapeville-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
Plunket Town1.0 miles23
Eagan Park1.1 miles23
Hammond Park1.1 miles23
Haasville (historical)1.2 miles23
Elmwood1.6 miles23
Gilbert Gardens1.7 miles23
Orchard Knob2.0 miles23
East Point2.0 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 HapevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2025231The 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 331909. 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.