Mountain Park, Georgia
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Roswell-Alpharetta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30075. The Survey maps it on the Mountain Park quadrangle. 583 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresMountain Park grew from 547 to 583 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 | 547 | |
| 2020 | 583 | +36 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 23 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.
- 1890 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Mountain Park quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Mountain Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
118 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Park between 1992 and 2012, burning about 243 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 26 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 55 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-FORSYTH-002 |
| 19 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-CHEROKEE-005 |
| 10 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-CHEROKEE-002 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Park: 6 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniels Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Ocoee Mine | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Bailey Property | Gold | Past Producer | 1840 | |
| Chester (Turner) Prospect | Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Green Placer/Mcclure/Nunnaly | Gold | Past Producer | Stream Placer | |
| Mcclure No.2 | Gold | Past Producer | Stream Placer | |
| Nunnaly | Gold | Prospect | Placer | |
| Van Prospect | Gold | Past Producer | Stream Placer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain Park in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Mountain Park | $1,500,000 | A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, GA determined that the F1 tornado that began near Noonday in Cobb county continued eastward marking out a path approximately 11-miles long across North Fulton county. Considerable damage was noted just south of Crabapple where a car wash and detail shop was destroyed, a gas station suffered major damage, and a nearby strip mall suffered minor damage. Hundreds of trees were blown down along Rucker Road. The damage continued eastward into the Alpharetta area where 40 homes were damaged by downed trees, five of which sustained major damage. A dental building in Alpharetta also suffered major damage when a downed tree caused damage to the sprinkler system, flooding the building with thousands of gallons of water causing major damage to the historic building. All-in-all, local newspapers reported that 149 homes in Fulton county sustained moderate to serious damage, some of which were a total loss. Within Fulton county, the tornado had a path length of 11 miles with a path width ranging from 10 to 200 yards. The entire path length of this tornado, including Cobb and Fulton counties, was 18-miles long. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Park | $60,000 | The Fulton County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees down across the county. Several trees were blown down in Roswell, including one on a house on Highland Colony Drive. Trees and power lines were blown down on West Conway Drive Northwest. A tree was down on a car with a motorist trapped inside at Montgomery Ferry Drive and Monroe Drive and a tree fell on a house on Argonne Avenue. No injuries were reported. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Park | $15,000 | The Fulton County Department reported that several trees and power lines were blown down in the Mountain Park area. A storm spotter reported that a metal carport roof was ripped by strong winds north of Roswell. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Park | $4,000 | Fox 5 Television of Atlanta reported that several trees and power lines were down in the Mountain Park area of far north Fulton county. Laural Street in Roswell had to be closed for up to 24 hours to clear a large downed tree from the roadway. The damage was the result of a thunderstorm downburst. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Park | $1,000 | Tree down at intersection of Woodstock Road and Leita Thompson Road. |
| December 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Park | $1,000 | A tree was blown down in the 11800 block of Wildwood Springs Drive. |
| December 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Park | $1,000 | A tree fell into the roadway in the 700 block of Brookfield Pkwy. |
| December 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Park | $1,000 | A tree fell into the roadway in the 800 block of Oakhaven Drive. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Mountain Park | - | The public reported hail the size of quarters at Lackey Road and Overlook Pass. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Mountain Park | - | The public reported penny-sized hail. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Mountain Park | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookfield West | 0.7 miles | 23 | |
| Wildwood Springs | 0.8 miles | 23 | |
| Highland Colony | 1.0 miles | 23 | |
| Litchfield Hundred | 1.2 miles | 23 | |
| Sweet Apple Crossing | 1.7 miles | 23 | |
| Greenway | 2.1 miles | 23 | |
| Arnold Mill | 2.8 miles | 23 | |
| Crabapple | 3.9 miles | 22 |
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 Mountain Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3475616 | 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 332440. 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.








