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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.

Mountain Park within Fulton County

Population over time

2 figures

Mountain 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.

YearPeople Change
2010547
2020583+36 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

118 since 1992

Regional 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 burning55
Arson/incendiarism26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
9 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FORSYTH-002
19 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2011Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-CHEROKEE-005
10 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-CHEROKEE-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Daniels ProspectMicaProspect
Ocoee MineCopperPast Producer
Bailey PropertyGoldPast Producer1840
Chester (Turner) ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Green Placer/Mcclure/NunnalyGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Mcclure No.2GoldPast ProducerStream Placer
NunnalyGoldProspectPlacer
Van ProspectGoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006Tornado (F1)Mountain Park$1,500,000A 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 2015Thunderstorm WindMountain Park$60,000The 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 2008Thunderstorm WindMountain Park$15,000The 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 2010Thunderstorm WindMountain Park$4,000Fox 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 2024Thunderstorm WindMountain Park$1,000Tree down at intersection of Woodstock Road and Leita Thompson Road.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindMountain Park$1,000A tree was blown down in the 11800 block of Wildwood Springs Drive.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindMountain Park$1,000A tree fell into the roadway in the 700 block of Brookfield Pkwy.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindMountain Park$1,000A tree fell into the roadway in the 800 block of Oakhaven Drive.
June 2020HailMountain Park-The public reported hail the size of quarters at Lackey Road and Overlook Pass.
July 2004HailMountain Park-The public reported penny-sized hail.
April 1997HailMountain 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
Brookfield West0.7 miles23
Wildwood Springs0.8 miles23
Highland Colony1.0 miles23
Litchfield Hundred1.2 miles23
Sweet Apple Crossing1.7 miles23
Greenway2.1 miles23
Arnold Mill2.8 miles23
Crabapple3.9 miles22

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 ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475616The 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.